Diggles and Duckie,
You just don't have a clue.
Your ignorance is exceeded only by your arrogance, in assuming you know better than the guy in the seat that night.
Let me make this very clearly to you. The pilot in command of that flight will have been, experienced and well trained. They will have been doing everything they could to get their passengers to their destination safely. Its that simple. There is no conspiracy. Despite what Sir G says, who I can only assume has landed at LBA easily using his superior skills, after a 757 has gone to MAN, pilots do not divert at the first opportunity to where they have parked their cars.
You would be the first to complain had they have landed and you had been frightened.
You, I expect, are the kind of pax who complain when they land early, because now you will have to wait for your taxi.
If you can do better, do it yourself.
If you don't want to ever divert again, go by boat!