Automated news-feed website madeiraisland.news has picked up on a story that an easyJet plane from Manchester heading for Madeira yesterday evening had to make an emergency landing at the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport in Porto.

The Diario reports that after a change of plane, the passengers were able to continue their journey. Flight U2 1971 should have landed at Madeira Airport at 18:55, but eventually arrived on the island at 22.16.