Plane runway incident delays Edinburgh Airport flights
27.07.09
Flights to and from Edinburgh Airport were hit when a light aircraft's wing struck the runway as it landed yesterday. The incident, which happened at 11:15, involved an ST75 ‘wing walker’ which had taken part in the East Fortune airshow on Saturday.
A spokeswoman for BAA said it was forced to close the runway as a result of the incident. It reopened just after midday. Two flights coming in were diverted to Glasgow and Prestwick, while three were held at the airport waiting to take-off. The diverted flights were a Ryanair flight from Frankfurt, which went to Prestwick, and a flight from Charles de Gaulle, which landed at Glasgow.
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