TUI plane issued mayday call after ‘trespasser’ shut runway at UK airport

The TUI flight, not pictured, had taken off from Cape Verde around five hours earlier (Picture: Getty Images)

A TUI flight was forced into an emergency diversion as its fuel supplies ran low during a ‘tresspass’ incident at Manchester Airport.

Planes were blocked from landing on a runway at the UK’s third-busiest airport for a period on Friday night due to the security breach.

They included one TUI Airways flight from Cape Verde’s Aristides Pereira International Airport, which was five hours in...