Jet2 Boeing leaves Birmingham runway in Storm Boelo gusts, no one hurt

Landing on the grass

On Sunday, 25 October, a Jet2 Boeing 737-800 operating flight LS1310 from Venice touched down at Birmingham Airport at around 14:19 local time, on runway 33. Shortly after first contact, the jet moved off the paved surface onto the grass beside the strip. Video filmed by plane spotters shows the aircraft bouncing slightly, its nose turning away from the tarmac and dust and mud flying up as the wheels rolled over the turf. Tracking data cited by Simple Flying and AeroXplorer show the aircraft left the asphalt for a short time before the crew steered it back onto the runway and onto a taxiway. Aviation News reported that the left main landing gear went off the runway during the manoeuvre. The aircraft is registered G-JZHE.

Crosswind on the approach

Birmingham has a single runway, 15/33, running northwest to southeast, so a landing on 33 means heading northwest. The weather bulletin issued at 14:20, one minute after the landing time given in the sources, recorded wind from 280 degrees at 19 knots with gusts up to 32 knots. That direction sits about 50 degrees off the runway axis, creating a significant crosswind component. Calculations by Afterburner put the crosswind at about 15 knots in steady wind and close to 25 knots in gusts. An earlier bulletin, issued at 12:50, reported gusts of up to 34 knots. The weather figures alone do not establish the cause of the excursion.

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Airline statement and passengers

Jet2 said the aircraft moved temporarily off the runway after landing because of exceptional weather conditions caused by the storm. The airline said the jet immediately returned to the runway, then reached its parking stand. A spokesperson told the Mirror the same sequence of events and said that all passengers disembarked normally. No injuries were reported. The airline's account is more measured than the footage, which shows the nose pointed away from the strip before the crew corrected course.

Storm Boelo across Britain

The incident happened as Storm Boelo brought strong winds across the West Midlands and the wider United Kingdom. Reports linked the storm to two deaths after trees fell in high winds. More than 90,000 properties remained without power on 25 October, and gusts reached 137 km/h in parts of Scotland. Flooding, damage to the road network, flight cancellations and disruption to ferry and rail services were also reported. The storm's effect on air travel was visible at Birmingham, where the Jet2 landing took place in the same gusts.

What the sources do not say

All sources agree that the passengers left the aircraft normally and that nobody was hurt. The figures for power cuts and gusts come from storm reports, and the sources give no final storm toll. The sources do not describe any investigation into the landing.