Originally Posted by
ATNotts
It would perhaps be useful to get the facts on this rather than a Reach Group local rag that was then lifted by Simple Flying. Sadly I don't have any better information than those two (often flawed) sources.
On the subject of SQ at EMA there has been at least one 747 freighter through, shipping back 'toy' cars from some F1 race.
Agreed, probably some reason known only to the company that they had to go-around twice and then divert. Lots of companies procedures only permit two attempts at the same airfield before requiring a diversion. Not an overly unusual occurrence at certain airports on lumps of rock in the Atlantic.
Simple Flying indeed, although I appreciate my comment doesn’t add much, there are lots of possible variables and most will be unknown to us.