Planes make terrifying landings in Scottish storm

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Air passengers in Scotland have spoken of their terrifying experiences as planes coming in to land were battered by storm winds in of up to 165 miles per hour.

An Easyjet flight from Bristol had a perilous landing, almost scraping its wing as it touched down on the runway at Edinburgh Airport during yesterday's massive storm.

Many flights to and from Scotland had to be cancelled or diverted.

Describing the Easyjet landing, eyewitness Katie Harris, from Edinburgh, told the Courier newspaper:

'I couldn't believe my eyes. I'm so glad I wasn't on that plane... The right wheel hit the ground first and it just bounced.'

'The flight that tried to come in right before this one was actually worse. It went completely sideways as it tried to descend and had to abolish its landing. I don't know where it went – it just flew off into the distance.

The Met Office issued a red alert warning for much of central Scotland and warned motorists to avoid the roads altogether.

Experts have described the hurricane-force storm that lashed Scotland as a 'weather bomb', a phenomena which happens when cold air meets warm air and creates a decrease in atmospheric pressure.

Jonathan Powell, senior forecaster at Positive Weather Solutions, told the Daily Telegraph: "These gusts are really off-the-scale, and surpass hurricane-force. The criteria for what we have seen would fit the weather bomb scenario."

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