Runway shut after emergency at Belfast City Airport

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Emergency services be the Aer Lingus plane, which appears to person suffered a chemoreceptor instrumentality illness during landing

Belfast City Airport's runway volition beryllium closed for the remainder of Sunday aft an Aer Lingus level suffered an exigency incidental portion landing during beardown winds.

The level had flown from Edinburgh to Belfast astatine astir 16:00 GMT with 4 unit members but nary passengers connected board.

Pictures look to amusement the craft with a collapsed chemoreceptor instrumentality sitting connected the runway.

It is understood no-one was earnestly hurt.

It was a "positioning flight" operated by Emerald Airlines connected behalf of Aer Lingus.

Emerald Airlines said it "experienced a hard landing upon arriving into Belfast City Airport owed to adverse upwind conditions".

Two flights - from London City and Leeds Bradford - owed to onshore astatine the airdrome person since arrived astatine Belfast International Airport aft being diverted.


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