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TUI plane makes emergency landing after 'three or four loud bangs' heard with passengers left screaming

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Three or four 'loud bangs' were heard with passengers 'screaming' as a plane had to make an emergency landing just after taking off from Manchester Airport this morning.

It is the second TUI flight to make such a landing within four days. The plane sent a 7700 'Squawk' code signalling an emergency at 13,000ft shortly after taking off at a delayed time of 10.30am for Cape Verde.

It then circled above Macclesfield and Buxton for more than two hours before landing back where it had started around 1.12pm where fire engines were waiting the plane.

Passengers onboard the plane have told the Manchester Evening News how shortly after take off three or four "loud bangs" were heard and the wing could be seen "shaking".

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