Hello, I'm new here so apologies if this is posted in the wrong place or is a daft question!
I was tracking a Ryanair flight from Pisa to Leeds (UK) on 19/07/2014 (simply because it had flown over my house) and followed it on to it's final approach to Leeds/Bradford airport runway 14 (I think). It appeared to be very close indeed to landing (below 1,000' if I remember correctly) when it seemed to abort its landing - it climbed to around 4,000' and then changed direction a number of times and eventually (some 10 minutes later) started to approach runway 32 instead - where it subsequently landed. I was a bit surprised to see this and wondered what the reason was for this apparent very late change of runway. Would it be possible that a significant change of wind direction occurred immediately before landing that would necessitate the pilot taking this action?
I was tracking a Ryanair flight from Pisa to Leeds (UK) on 19/07/2014 (simply because it had flown over my house) and followed it on to it's final approach to Leeds/Bradford airport runway 14 (I think). It appeared to be very close indeed to landing (below 1,000' if I remember correctly) when it seemed to abort its landing - it climbed to around 4,000' and then changed direction a number of times and eventually (some 10 minutes later) started to approach runway 32 instead - where it subsequently landed. I was a bit surprised to see this and wondered what the reason was for this apparent very late change of runway. Would it be possible that a significant change of wind direction occurred immediately before landing that would necessitate the pilot taking this action?