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22/04/2008
Crash Practice Gets Real At City Airport
Just days after emergency services took part in a simulation of a major airport crash at Belfast City Airport, a live incident has taken place.
While not nearly as serious as the imagined scenario last week, where police, fire and ambulance crews were asked to deal with a plane arriving from Paris, which has crashed with 65 passengers onboard, a plane has burst a tyre at the George Best Belfast City Airport this morning.
The front tyre of a private light aircraft, carrying four passengers and three crew, burst as it was taxiing to a stand.
A press spokesman for the airport said that the runway had not been closed, and that no one on the flight from the Isle of Man had been injured.
He said that the tyre of the Lett type aircraft was being changed.
(BMcC)
While not nearly as serious as the imagined scenario last week, where police, fire and ambulance crews were asked to deal with a plane arriving from Paris, which has crashed with 65 passengers onboard, a plane has burst a tyre at the George Best Belfast City Airport this morning.
The front tyre of a private light aircraft, carrying four passengers and three crew, burst as it was taxiing to a stand.
A press spokesman for the airport said that the runway had not been closed, and that no one on the flight from the Isle of Man had been injured.
He said that the tyre of the Lett type aircraft was being changed.
(BMcC)
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