Bad weather conditions would have prevented the pilot of flight W6 4752 from flying Air Wizz to land as scheduled at Skopje International Airport: starting from “Marco Polo” in Venice, the Airbus A321neo made an infinite loop around the destination, before changing its original route and finally landing in Kosovo.
The incident occurred this afternoon, Tuesday 25 November, on a Hungarian low-cost company plane that took off Venice at 14.33. Once at its destination, at around 15.41, the Airbus A321neo remained flying over the airport of the capital of the Republic of Macedonia for approximately two hours, trying by all means to make the right maneuver to land.
According to what can be found thanks to online portals flight consciousat least the commander will achieve it seventeen rounds around Skopje airport, before deciding to give up and head north. It was 17.33, when the Wizz Air plane made its final maneuvers and headed for Kosovo: The Airbus landed at Pristina International Airport without experiencing any problems.
But what actually happened? According to what the Hungarian low-cost airline stated, it was a problem caused by the bad weather that hit the skies of Skopje: however, there was a ” minor “yellow“, in contrast to flight W6 4752, other aircraft managed to land and take off from Skopje airport during these hours, especially with visibility set at “maximum”.
But at the moment, we can only rely on the press release issued by Wizz Air, although there are still doubts due to the anomaly mentioned above. “Wizz Air confirms that flight W64752 from Venice to Skopje on November 25 was diverted to Pristina due to poor weather conditions in Skopje”explain low costs a Courier. “All passengers will be transported to Skopje by land transportation.
“The safety of our passengers, crew and aircraft is our top priority, and we thank our crew for their professionalism and our passengers for their understanding,” the statement concluded.
Seen from the flightaware site, the plane took off again from Pristina at 19.05, and finally landed at Skopje at 20.32.
