The missing wheel was only noticed after the plane landed at Belfast City Airport on October 31 2023.

The Dublin – Heathrow route, the second busiest air route in Europe, was severely impacted.

It comes after more than 1,000 flights to and from Heathrow were cancelled on Friday due to a power outage.

Several flights were redirected after a plane made a hard landing.

The Met Office has forecast a ‘grey Christmas’ with some sunny spells and ‘extremely mild’ temperatures.

The incident triggered emergency procedures at Belfast City Airport and has forced the runway to close for the rest of the day.

Tourism chiefs told MLAs that any transatlantic flight from NI had to be commercially viable.

The NCA released an image of around a dozen evidence bags containing the seized cannabis.

More than 1 million passengers will pass through Dublin Airport over the next 12 days, according to the airport operator DAA.

The airport celebrated the launch of a new easyJet winter route to Glasgow on Monday.