NINE passenger planes declared an emergency last night after they were prevent from landing at a major UK airport.

The flights were all bound for Gatwick but were stopped from getting their wheels down after another jet was met by airport rescue and firefighting services on the tarmac.

Nine flights were forced to declare an emergency after they weren’t able to land

Those flights still in the air were then forced to declare an emergency likely due to low fuel, Flightradar24 reported.

The flight which stopped on Gatwick’s runway had landed from Palma de Mallorca at 12.12am.

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