Flights diverted after emergency repairs at Manchester Airport
18.08.09
Flights had to be diverted and others left mid-air above Manchester Airport yesterday when staff were forced to carry out emergency repairs to the runway. Problems with a broken, sunken light on the runway serving terminal two and three forced the airport to divert planes to land at terminal one.
At least eight flights were sent to Leeds Bradford, Birmingham and Liverpool airports to refuel before returning to land at Manchester. An airport spokesman said: ‘We had to close a runway for a short time to make some emergency repairs to a sunken light twice during the afternoon. It did mean some flights had to hold and others had to divert to local airports to refuel, but later returned here to offload passengers.’
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