Almeria Flight Diverted Suddenly To Malaga

AN IBERIA formation taking disconnected astatine 8:00am from nan Almeria airdrome to Melilla ended up taking a frustrating detour for nan passengers connected Saturday, September 13. Just arsenic nan level was astir to onshore successful Melilla connected nan North African coast, nan formation was abruptly diverted to Malaga. 

Reportedly, nan alteration was owed to a beingness of low-lying clouds successful Melilla, making nan landing manoeuvre excessively difficult and forcing nan formation to alteration course. The flight, which took only astir half an hour, landed astatine nan Malaga airdrome wherever passengers were assigned different formation to Melilla, heading retired from nan superior of nan Costa del Sol.

The airdrome of Melilla was greatly affected by these upwind conditions, arsenic different Iberia formation from Malaga besides had trouble landing and needed to circle nan airdrome respective times successful hold for conditions to improve.

Low-lying clouds are a problem for pilots, since they obscure nan landing runway and imaginable obstacles, arsenic good arsenic trim visibility. They besides airs a consequence of craft icing, arsenic they tin incorporate droplets of h2o aliases crystal particles astatine freezing temperatures.

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