Birmingham Airport continues to delay after emergency landing is closed

After an aircraft is forced to make an emergency landing, passengers have to face hours of delay after closing the runway of Birmingham Airport.

The runway was closed on Wednesday afternoon when the small aircraft returned to the airport after a landing gear on a flight for Belfast.

It remained closed for more than six hours, while the employees worked to remove the aircraft, with thousands of airlines trapped or twisted.

The runway opened again After 19:30 BST, when the aircraft was transferred. The first flight left shortly after, was originally scheduled to leave at 14:10.

In a notice on its website, Birmingham Airport said it was now “working in its general program” but warned that passengers might have to face some residual delays.

Several flights were shown in the online departure list on Thursday morning.

For example, 05:55 BST Lufthansa flight for frankfurt left for 09:57, while the 06:30 TUI service for Kefalonia was estimated at around 12:30 pm.

Other flights have experienced small delays, from about 35 minutes to a few hours.

According to the aircraft charter and Management Company, Woodgate Aviation, one of its Beechcraft-Wing aircraft developed landing gear problems on his visit to Belfast after flying from Birmingham at 13:11 at 13:11.

The aircraft landed at 13:58 and returned to Birmingham.

The company said, “The aircraft returned to Birmingham and created an emergency landing and collapsed at the main undercarge touch down,” the company said.

It confirmed two crew members and was on a passenger board, but was not injured.

West Midlands Police, West Midlands Fire Service and Birmingham Airport Police were among the agencies at the scene.

Birmingham Airport said its teams worked as soon as possible to move the aircraft to suit the “strict protocol”.

A spokesperson said the protocol was to be followed, “to ensure reopening the runway after a long closure”.

Woodgate said that it would fully cooperate with Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), which confirmed that it was looking at the incident.

A statement by AAIB states that a multi-disciplinary team of inspectors was deployed on the site.

With the closure of more than six hours, many passengers were delayed or noticed that their flights reached other airports.

At least 10 flights were canceled due to departure from the airport, while others delayed more than five hours.

Twenty which were caused by land in Birmingham were taken to other airports.

Some passengers told the BBC that their flights were canceled “moments before boarding” on Wednesday afternoon.

Birmingham Airport said that it understands frustration and apologized for disintegration.

Fayy, who was traveling with his partner and four children, said he came to know about the incident on Facebook.

They were due to flying to Antalya in Türkiye with Jet 2 at 14:55. While waiting at the airport, the family was given £ 10 per person per person by the airline for food and drinks.

He later received a text message stating that the holiday was canceled and there would be a complete return in four to five days.

He and his family were waiting for about 400 other people, his children to collect their belongings with “robbing and crying”.

“We are waiting for our luggage here and it is boiling hot … and now our children are not a holiday,” he said at that time.