{"id":50014,"date":"2026-03-27T14:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/50014\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:16:41","slug":"vilnius-airport-remains-closed-as-plane-skids-off-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/50014\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport remains closed as plane skids off runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was previously announced that the airport would be closed until 5 p.m., but news website Delfi later reported that the airport would remain closed until 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involved <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delfi.lt\/temos\/lot\" tag-id=\"55453317\">LOT<\/a> Polish Airlines plane Embraer E170STD. It landed at 1:34 p.m. but skidded of the runway while taxiing.<\/p>\n<p>Based on preliminary information, nobody was hurt in the incident. Passengers disembarked, their luggage was retrieved, and they left the airport.<\/p>\n<p>According to Delfi, 63 passengers and 4 crew members were travelling on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers whose flights were scheduled to depart from Vilnius Airport before 7 p.m. were asked to contact their airlines and to follow the latest information on Vilnius Airport\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Transport Juras Taminskas says disruptions affected 34 arriving and departing flights and several thousand passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian Airports (LTOU) CEO Simonas Bartkus urges to wait for findings of the would-be investigation instead of speculating about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He says Vilnius Airport had taken all the necessary measures to ensure that the runway is in good condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was previously announced that the airport would be closed until 5 p.m., but news website Delfi later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[171,27931,24788,170,2743],"class_list":{"0":"post-50014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vilnius","8":"tag-lithuania","9":"tag-lot","10":"tag-planetariumas","11":"tag-vilnius","12":"tag-vilnius-airport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}