The Home Secretary last night defiantly vowed to plough ahead with her flagship migration plan despite a Strasbourg judge s extraordinary 11th-hour intervention blocked the first flight.
MPs and ministers called for the UK to withdraw from European Court of Human Rights after it intervened to stop an Iraqi citizen being deported - just before the flight was due to take off.
The Boeing 767 - operated by Spanish charter firm Privilege Style - was seen landing at the Ministry of Defence testing site in Wiltshire earlier today.
Judges decided that the plane to the African country could take off as official figures showed 138 people made the perilous journey across the English Channel in three boats.
One of the seven migrants due to be transferred to Rwanda had his removal called off after a move by the European Court of Human Rights, while a second man s move is also thrown into doubt.