A plane has been forced to make an emergency landing at Israel’s largest airport after part of a wheel fell off during take-off.
El Al flight 2521 left for Prague as scheduled this morning but did not reach the Czech capital.
Tracking data showed the Boeing 737-800 doing a U-turn around Yalvac, in Turkey, to return to Israel and doing several figure-eights around Ben Gurion International Airport before it could safely land.
Elal flight 2521 returned to Tel aviv for an emergency landing due tire damaged. pic.twitter.com/VGeb7pgoWw— AdriánM (@AlfaMay2) April 21, 2015
UPDATE EMERGENCY #LY2521 Firemen are cooling the landing gear. http://t.co/V4DsMhIzci pic.twitter.com/rGvfVoZRIq
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) April 21, 2015
UPDATE EMERGENCY We have confirmation #LY2521 safely landed at Tel Aviv airport. pic.twitter.com/dKECLT9NlV
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) April 21, 2015
BREAKING Elal flight #LY073 declared an emergency after problems with the right wheel, Due to land in TLV in 45 minutes /@News_Executive
— AirLive.net (@airlivenet) April 21, 2015