{"id":323883,"date":"2025-08-07T00:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323883\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T00:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T00:45:21","slug":"birmingham-airport-runway-reopens-after-emergency-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323883\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport runway reopens after emergency landing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chloe Hughes<\/p>\n

BBC News, West Midlands<\/p>\n

Footage shows plane landing at Birmingham Airport<\/p>\n

Thousands of people travelling to and from Birmingham Airport have been hit by delays and cancellations after a light aircraft made an emergency landing on its runway.<\/p>\n

Woodgate Aviation, which owns the plane, said one of its Beechcraft fixed-wing aircraft had developed landing gear problems on the journey from Birmingham to Belfast.<\/p>\n

Two crew members and one passenger were onboard, but were not seriously injured when the main undercarriage collapsed on touchdown.<\/p>\n

The runway was shut for more than six hours until the plane was removed at about 19:30 BST, after which the airport said it had reopened.<\/p>\n

The first plane to depart from the airport after its reopening was a Wizz Air flight to Bucharest, Romania, which had been scheduled to leave Birmingham at 14:10.<\/p>\n

A number of flights on the Birmingham Airport online departure board also showed that they were open for check-in.<\/p>\n

Some passengers told the BBC that their planes were cancelled “moments before boarding<\/a>” on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

In a statement, a Birmingham Airport spokesperson said: “We understand the frustration and apologise for the disruption this has caused.<\/p>\n

“Our teams have worked as quickly as possible, in line with strict protocols, which must be followed to ensure a safe reopening of the runway following a prolonged closure.”<\/p>\n

\"MrMr Singh<\/p>\n

Photos on social media show a small aircraft on the runway<\/p>\n

At least 10 flights due to depart from the airport were cancelled.<\/p>\n

Others were delayed by more than five hours, and more than 20 due to land there were diverted to other airports.<\/p>\n

West Midlands Police, West Midlands Fire Service, and Birmingham Airport Police were among the agencies at the scene.<\/p>\n

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said it was investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

\"FayeFaye<\/p>\n

Faye and her family’s holiday was cancelled altogether<\/p>\n

Faye, who was travelling with her partner and four children, said they found out about the incident on Facebook.<\/p>\n

They had been due to fly to Antalya in Turkey with Jet2 at 14:55. While waiting at the airport, the family was given \u00a310 per person by the airline for food and drinks.<\/p>\n

Faye told the BBC she subsequently received a text message saying the whole holiday had been cancelled, and there would be a full refund in four to five days.<\/p>\n

She and her family were waiting to collect their baggage along with about 400 other people, her children “sobbing and crying”, she said.<\/p>\n

“We are stuck here waiting for our baggage and it’s boiling hot… and now our kids aren’t going to have a holiday,” she added.<\/p>\n

\"JamesJames Conibere<\/p>\n

James Conibere said passengers were frustrated with the lack of updates<\/p>\n

James Conibere and his family of eight were hoping to board a flight to Malta on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

He told the BBC it was a retirement gift for his mother-in-law, and they had arrived at the airport shortly before the incident, at 13:00.<\/p>\n

While the family sat in a Wetherspoons, waiting for updates, Mr Conibere said he watched other passengers searching for somewhere to sit in the crowded pub, many of them frustrated.<\/p>\n

“Lots of people are getting agitated and angry by the lack of information from the airport,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We have received a food voucher from Ryanair. We’re relying on news outlets for information.”<\/p>\n

Inbound passengers also reported long delays. <\/p>\n

Diana Celella, from Sutton Coldfield, was due to return from Lisbon on a Ryanair flight departing at 20:20 after a week-long holiday with her husband. Her flight is now due to leave at 23:05, after being pushed back several times.<\/p>\n

“If we do manage to take off tonight, we’ll count ourselves lucky under the circumstances,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Everyone we’ve spoken to recognises that it’s out of Ryanair’s control. However, there’s been a lack of clear communication.”<\/p>\n

What do we know about the aircraft?<\/p>\n

\"Flightrader24Flightrader24<\/p>\n

The plane had to turn back to Birmingham<\/p>\n

The aircraft involved in this incident was a Beechcraft B200 Super King Air, a small, twin-engine propeller plane that has been in production since the 1970s.<\/p>\n

This flight was departing from Birmingham and headed to Belfast.<\/p>\n

It departed at 13:11, but soon had to make a turn and flew in a holding pattern, landing back at Birmingham Airport at 13:58.<\/p>\n

The plane transmitted a 7700 squawk code – which are broadcast to tell air traffic control that there is an emergency and the aircraft needs priority handling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chloe Hughes BBC News, West Midlands Footage shows plane landing at Birmingham Airport Thousands of people travelling to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-323883","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\/114984722556881781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323883","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=323883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}