A British Airways flight was forced to circle Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, six times before making an emergency landing after its landing gear got stuck during takeoff, according to British news reports. BA Flight 1443 departed the Scottish capital at 11 a.m. for a short flight south to London, expected to take around an hour. But just five minutes after takeoff, the pilots sounded the alarm after the plane’s wheels became stuck in the down position, Business Insider reported. The aircraft circled over the town of Stirling six times until it was cleared for an emergency landing. The airport touched back down in Edinburgh at 12.16 p.m. and remained on the tarmac for an additional hour while technicians fixed the issue, causing a further 15 flights to be delayed or diverted. Most flights were diverted to nearby Glasgow, about 50 miles away, but one KLM flight was forced to turn around and head back to Amsterdam, and a Qatar Airways flight was diverted to Manchester Airport, nearly 200 miles away. The incident was the second significant disruption at the airport in just four days, following a major IT failure that diverted dozens of flights to airports across the U.K. and Ireland.
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