Passengers on board the Virgin Atlantic plane forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport in London yesterday will try to complete their journey later.
The airline has arranged a special flight this morning for the 447 passengers bound for Las Vegas.
Virgin president Richard Branson has paid tribute to the pilots, who landed the aircraft safely.
Well done @virginatlantic pilots & team for safe & skillful landing of #VS43. Thoughts with passengers & crew, thanks for support & patience
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) December 29, 2014
The Boeing 747 jumbo had a "technical issue with one of the landing gears", said a Virgin statement.
Flight VS43 took off at 11:44am yesterday from Gatwick and was heading to Las Vegas, before it turned back.
See footage of the landing below:
