Thomas Cook B763 near Manchester on Oct 13th 2014, hydraulic failure

A Thomas Cook Boeing 767-300, registration G-TCCA performing flight MT-2534 from Manchester,EN (UK) to Dalaman (Turkey) with 278 people on board, was climbing out of Manchester when the crew stopped the climb at FL260 due to the failure of a hydraulic system and decided to return to Manchester. The crew performed an alternate gear extension and landed the aircraft overweight but safely on runway 05R about one hour after departure and vacated the runway stopping after the hold short line. The aircraft needed to be towed to the apron.

A replacement Boeing 767-300 registration G-DAJC reached Dalaman with a delay of 5.5 hours.

The occurrence aircraft was able to resume service about 7 hours after landing.