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Operations stopped after accidentLanding goes wrong – Hamburg airport is temporarily closed!
After this accident, everything came to a standstill!
In the afternoon, a small plane is supposed to land at Hamburg airport – the landing goes wrong. The small crash landing has an impact on air traffic for hours.
“Air traffic has resumed”
Because a small plane had difficulty landing at Hamburg airport, all take-offs and landings were briefly stopped. “The plane landed with us and was damaged. It was damaged during landing,” said an airport spokesman for the German Press Agency. But no one was injured.
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A spokesman specified in response to an RTL request: “A small aircraft was damaged during landing and is currently being recovered. No one was injured. No take-offs and landings are possible for the duration of the recovery work. As soon as these are completed, flight operations will resume.”
Because it took a while until air traffic could resume, queues formed in the terminal, according to RTL information. In the evening, around half past six, the all-clear was given! The airport said: “The recovery work has been completed and air traffic has resumed.”
The plane crash-landed at Hamburg airport.
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It was not yet clear how many flights were diverted or canceled. However, according to the spokesman, we are talking about several dozen planes that were unable to land or take off during that time. Some of them were diverted to surrounding airports.
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Incident at Hamburg Airport: Runway must be cleaned
The comparatively small incident had a larger impact on air traffic at Hamburg Airport. Because while the machine was being recovered and the runway was being cleaned, no other planes could take off and land. For security reasons!
“This has to be cleaned very carefully,” the spokesman continued. Even the smallest pieces of debris could be dangerous for aircraft when taking off and landing. The small plane arrived at Hamburg airport around 4 p.m. The Bild newspaper had previously reported. (with dpa)
Sources used: own RTL research, DPA
