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A plane carrying Prince William and Kate had to abort its landing twice after getting caught up in horrendous storms.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were en-route to Islamabad, Pakistan, when the mid-air drama happened on Thursday.
Prince William said he and his wife were fine and joked that he was behind the controls of the stricken plane.
The pilot of the RAF Voyager attempted to land twice at different airports as the country was hit by lightning and turbulence.
In the end, the plane had to return to Lahore because of the terrible weather conditions.
It is not yet known if it will try to take off again.
Daily Mail royal reporter Rebecca English was on board the diverted flight.
She tweeted: ‘The pilot tried to land twice, at two different airports, amid horrendous lightening and turbulence, but was forced to return Lahore for safety reasons.
‘Fortunately William has taken it in his stride – he just came back down the plane to see if we were ok and joked that he was flying!’
The royal pair are on a four-day official tour of Pakistan.
On Thursday, they were in the eastern city of Lahore where they undertook an emotional visit to a cancer hospital previously visited by Princess Diana.
The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre was started in the early 1990s by the cricket-hero-turned-politician Imran Khan.
He is now Pakistan’s prime minister and his former wife Jemima Goldsmith was a friend of the late princess.
Earlier in the day, the royal couple played cricket with children and members of Pakistan’s cricket team at the National Cricket Academy.
Their day began with a birthday party for three orphaned children at a charitable organization, SOS Children’s Village.
They chatted with the children and Kate spoke in Urdu to congratulate them.
William and Kate later visited the historic Badshahi mosque, also previously visited by William’s mother during one of her visits to Lahore.
Since arriving, the royal couple have been advocating for girls’ education and visited a girl’s school in Islamabad.
They addressed climate change while in Pakistan’s northern region, where glaciers are melting at an alarming rate.
Pakistani authorities have deployed hundreds of police and paramilitary security forces for the protection of the visiting royal couple, who will return home on Friday.
