Elton John’s terror as plane has failure at 10,000ft and makes emergency landing
dailyrecord.co.ukElton John’s private plane has had to make an emergency landing following a terrifying engine emergency at 10,000ft. The rockstar’s jet was forced to abort the landing after two failed attempts when winds reached an alarming 80mph.
Fire engines raced to the runway when the third attempt was finally executed less than an two hours after the singer and his entourage had left that morning to fly to New York.
The aircraft suffered from a hydraulic failure about one hour into the flight which left about 10.20am from the airport. This meant that the plane had to U-turn while approaching the southern coast of Ireland, according to The Sun.
Photographs obtained by the publication show emergency crews at Farnborough Airport, Hants and Sir Elton stepping down off the plane and into the rainy weather.A witness told the publication: “The jet was being buffeted and couldn’t land.
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