The flight had departed from Lisbon earlier today.

20:36, Thu, Mar 12, 2026 Updated: 20:36, Thu, Mar 12, 2026

Ryanair Boeing 737 at Manchester Airport.

The Ryanair flight landed in Newcastle (Image: Getty)

A Ryanair flight was forced to land nearly 150 miles from its original destination this morning after being seemingly unable to touch ground at the airport it was meant to arrive to. Ryanair flight FR2253 / RYR93QF departed from Lisbon, Portugal, at 3.20pm on Thursday.

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It was meant to land in Manchester later on the same day, but instead it touched ground in Newcastle.

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