Two EastJet planes were forced to make emergency landings at Manchester Airport within an hour of each other, footage filmed this afternoon shows.

In the video, shot on October 16, both aircrafts can be seen landing at the airport.

They were met by fire crews and escorted to their respective gates.

According to the filmer, it was reported that both aircraft had fumes in the cockpit and cabin and this was due to the ash and smoke that Storm Ophelia had brought up from the Sahara.

2 emergency landings from 2 different easy jet planes at manchester airport within an hour.

one was due to land at manchester and declared an emergency upon approach, the other took off from manchester on its way to hamburg and turned back over the north east of england having declared an emergency

both aircraft saying they had fumes in the cockpit and cabin and this was due to the ash and smoke that storm ophelia had brought up from the sahara.

both landings were met by fire crews and escorted to their respective gates.

the hamburg flight took off again albeit on a different aircraft

took place between 2-3pm on monday 16th october 2017