Several Spanish airports closed their airspace earlier this morning because of an out-of-control Chinese rocket.
Flights into and and out of Barcelona, Tarragona, Ibiza and Reus were known to have been grounded with reports other regions including La Rioja and Castilla and Leon have been affected.
It came after China launched the third and final piece of its new Tiangong space station on Monday – and warnings had been sounded about the rocket's 23-ton body coming back down on Earth with Spain identified as one of the countries in its path.
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