Emergency after F-18 is blown off the runway in Palma

Palma.—Hurricane force winds  peaking at 140 kilometres per hour caused chaos in the Balearics yesterday and disrupted Spanish Air Force maneuvers.
At 9am, four Spanish F-18s took  off from Son San Joan air base to join other aircraft as part of   Operation Sirio Tormenta 2014 yesterday morning.
But, when they returned to base two-and-a-half hours later, the cross winds at the air base had picked up and were gusting at 40 knots, just over 74 kilometres per hour, and as one of the F-18 came in to land, it was caught in the cross wind and was blown off the runway causing a major emergency.