The flight carrying Tom Daley and several other Team England divers nearly had to make an emergency landing as it made its way to the Commonwealth Games.

The aircraft was forced to stop at a military base in the Russian city of Irkutsk after developing a technical problem on a journey from London to Shanghai, where Daley had been competing in the World Cup.

Sarah Barrow and Tonia Couch were among the other athletes that were on board when the crew put on oxygen masks and prepared to land the plane in a nearby river, before they found safe ground.

Kevin Barrow, the father of diver Sarah, told BBC Sport: "Over Mongolia, that's when things started going wrong and smoke was coming from the engines. The crew had their oxygen masks on and they prepared for an emergency landing.

"Sarah said afterwards that they were heading for a river as that was the safest place to land, but eventually the captain managed to make his way to an army camp with an airstrip where they managed to land.

"When they landed, people came round with extinguishers putting out the engine which was smoking."

Daley and company are now on the way to Glasgow from London and are not expected to miss any of the Games.