{"id":322856,"date":"2025-08-06T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322856\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:44:18","slug":"birmingham-airport-shuts-runway-after-person-injured-in-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322856\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport shuts runway after person injured in emergency landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;My kids are disappointed&#8217; &#8211; passengers diverted to other airportspublished at 16:28 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>16:28 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/941b0d1c-5141-4731-a6c5-1ad8f6c2a8e1.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Gabriela Pomeroy<\/strong><br \/>Live reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jan Inger\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/9be05545-0723-4448-b0f0-c251b8cb49f1.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1195\" height=\"672\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Jan Inger<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The closure of Birmingham Airport has cause widespread disruption to peoples&#8217; holiday plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I&#8217;ve spoken to a Slovakian man living in Spain, Jan Inger, who was on a Ryanair flight from Murcia to Birmingham Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says his plane was about to land at Birmingham Airport, when he sensed things were &#8220;a bit strange. I could feel the plane was going down more quickly than usual, and then the captain said there was a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pilot then announced they were being diverted to Nottingham Airport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jan was supposed to meet his kids at Birmingham Airport, and together they had plans to fly on to Budapest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My kids are disappointed. I was flying to have a holiday with them,&#8221; he says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jan is worried about getting his connecting flight this evening, and is now waiting with all the other stranded passengers at Nottingham Airport, to find out what happens next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;My kids are disappointed&#8217; &#8211; passengers diverted to other airportspublished at 16:28 British Summer Time 16:28 BST Gabriela&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114982595225946377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}