Aeroplanes (4)

Some of the aeroplanes on their way to Manchester Airport in just an hour on the afternoon of 6th August 2014. As usual I have flightradar24.com to thank for the details of all the aircraft and flights.

At 4.02pm this is the Germania flight ST4195 from Rhodes to Manchester. It's a Boeing 737-75B and the registration number is D-AGEP.

4.17pm and this is the Lufthansa flight LH2502 from Munich to Manchester. The registration number of this Airbus A320-214 is D-AIZB.

At 4.48pm Emirates flight EK205 from Milan to New York JFK passed overhead at 34,000 feet (that's almost 6½ miles, or about 10½ kilometres). The flight originally started in Dubai and the aircraft is a Boeing 777-31H(ER), registration number A6-EGD. I used the maximum zoom of 300mm on my camera, and I've cropped the photograph below to show the plane better. The Emirates logo underneath the aircraft is clearly visible (though upside-down in this picture).

Just after the Emirates plane passed overhead, and still at 4.48pm this Pakistan International Airlines flight PK709 from Lahore arrived. As it came over the landing gear was lowered, as you can see from the three photographs I took.

It's a Boeing 777-240ER and the registration number is AP-BHX

Most of the aircraft landing approach from the East so in the afternoon the sun is behind me as I take the photographs, but in the next photograph the plane came from the West and turned into the landing flightpath earlier than usual, so the sun is in the 'wrong' place in the next photograph.

At 4.43pm this is the Brussels Airlines flight SN2177 from Brussels to Manchester. It's an Avro RJ100 and the registration number is OO-DWL.

This Flybe flight BEE 3TW from Belfast to Manchester arrived at 4.58pm and it's an Embraer ERJ170-200STD, registration number G-FBJB.

This plane I noticed on flightradar24.com approaching Manchester Airport from the North and losing height as if to land, but the flight details showed that it was Lufthansa flight LH434 from Munich to Chicago. Looking at the track of the aircraft it had taken off from Munich and headed over the North Sea along the East coast of England, but when it got just about level with Middlesbrough it did a 90 degree turn to the left (or 'to port' I suppose I should say) and headed across the North Yorkshire Moors and thence to Manchester. After the melodrama of the Qatar Airlines plane the day before I half expected this Lufthansa flight to also be escorted by an RAF Typhoon, but that wasn't the case. It came over at 5.06pm, it's an Airbus A340-642X and the registration number is D-AIHP.

Footnote
Since posting this I've read the following report in today's Manchester Evening News:

I hope the child has responded to the treatment.