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Birmingham Airport closed after runway accident

Birmingham Airport closed after runway accident

Write: Geert [2011-05-20]

Birmingham Airport closed after runway accident

Posted: Tue 23 Nov, 2010 11:10 AM

Birmingham Airport closed after runway accident

Birmingham Airport suspended all flights following a runway accident on Friday.
Two casualties have been reported thus far, when a private Cessna airplane crashed in the foggy weather conditions. The plane had been en route from Belfast.
Roughly 80-flights were affected by the incident; majority of flights to Birmingham have been diverted to Manchester Airport, according to a report in Travel Daily UK.

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