Flybe has issued a statement regarding Sunday's incident at Ronaldsway.
The airline says it can confirm that their flight BE161 from the Island to Luton experienced a technical fault.
As a result the plane, with 48 passengers and four crew onboard, had to return to the Island for engineering checks as a precautionary measure.
All passengers disembarked down the steps as normal and were flown out on the next available flight.
The statement says safety is the airline's number one priority and apologises for any inconvenience caused to its customers.

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