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Neil Murphy

Planes struggle to land as brutal Storm Hannah winds batter Liverpool Airport

Stomach-churning footage shows planes struggling to land as they are blown off course by violent winds from Storm Hannah.

Passenger planes wobbled from side to side as they were buffeted by violent crosswinds at John Lennon Airport in Liverpool earlier today.

In the video, highly-skilled pilots can be seen battling the violent conditions as they approached the tarmac.

One Ryanair jet was forced to abort its landing after deeming the stormy conditions too dangerous, while an easyJet plane can be seen tilting dangerously just moments before touch down.

Britain has been battered by gusts of up to 82mph as Storm Hannah moves eastwards across the country.

An easyJet planes struggles in choppy conditions (Twitter)
It tilts from side to side as the pilot attempts to get the plane under control (Twitter)

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Other airports across the UK also reported difficult conditions.

A Turkish Airlines flight from Birmingham Airport was forced to land just 30 minutes after departure after a heavy gust caused its tail to strike the runway during takeoff.

The Boeing 737 returned to the airport for technical checks having taken off at 10.45am.

A yellow weather warning remains in place over the country, meaning the flooding of some homes and businesses is "likely".

A band of rain continues to hammer Northern Ireland, with another 10mm expected on top of the 20mm already seen.

Passengers experienced a bumpy landing (Twitter)
Heavy rain and gust battered the airport (Twitter)

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Meanwhile, Met Office forecaster Simon Partridge said: "It's a gradually improving picture as we go through the afternoon

"Storm Hannah is gradually moving south east so it has pretty much already cleared the south west of England so it's much drier and brighter now with just a few showers around.

He added: "By the evening the winds will gradually ease but it will be a pretty wet and windy day."

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