Singapore Airlines flight SQ52 to Manchester was forced to divert to London Gatwick, twice.
This morning, when flight SQ52 arrived in UK Airspace, the flight started approach to Manchester from 40,000 ft but stopped at 30,000 ft as Manchester Airport was close due to snow.
The Airbus A350 (registration 9V-SMW) was rerouted to London Gatwick where it landed at 09:32 GMT, 15 hours after departure.
A bit more than one hour later, the same aircraft made a second attempt. The A350 departed London Gatwick and headed North but was put on hold for 60 minutes before the crew decided to return.
The flight to nowhere was on hold South of Gatwick for a while before it landed about 2 hours after takeoff.
The airline was scheduling a at 18:30 from Manchester to Houston but the crew is now out of duty limit, the flight will resume tomorrow.
