Elton John was flying from the UK to New York, where he’s slated to perform at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday and Wednesday night. But something went wrong only an hour into the and the pilot was forced to make a U-turn near the coast of southern Ireland.
However, ferocious winds reaching 80 mph meant that the plane, emblazoned with a giant E, twice aborted landing while ambulances and fire crews waited on hand at Farnborough Airport, which cleared a runway.