Passengers travelling to Belfast City Airport have been making their way home for Christmas despite disruption. The airport reopened to flights on Monday, a day after its runway closed when a plane was damaged in a "hard landing".

Emergency crews could be seen attending an aircraft as one runway was shut down when a plane suffered a "hard landing" in bad weather.

The runway at Belfast City Airport is set to remain closed for the rest of today following in incident involving an Aer Lingus aircraft. Emergency services were scrambled to the scene shortly after 4pm with other flights diverted to Belfast International Airport.

All flights in and out of Belfast City Airport have been cancelled on Sunday evening after an Aer Lingus plane suffered an emergency incident while landing during strong winds. The plane had flown from Edinburgh to Belfast at about 16:00 GMT with four crew members but no passengers on board.

Belfast City Airport’s runway is “operating at normal” after it was forced to close following an emergency incident.