LONDON (Reuters) -Birmingham Airport in central England temporarily shut its runway on Wednesday after a small aircraft was involved in an emergency landing that left one person with minor injuries.
The police said in a post on X that emergency crews responded to the incident, which occurred at around 1340 local time (1240 GMT).
The airport said in a later update that all people on board the aircraft had been discharged by the emergency services. Check in services and security screening were temporarily closed, it added.
Images shared on social media showed a small propeller aircraft stationary on the runway of Britain’s seventh busiest airport.
The aircraft is a Beech B200 Super King Air that took off at 1211 local time and was bound for Belfast in Northern Ireland, according to plane tracking website Flightradar24.
A spokesperson for the airport told Reuters they could not immediately confirm a timeframe for the reopening of the runway.
The airport website showed some flights have been diverted to other British airports and some departures have been delayed to 1800 GMT.
The airport, which served some 13 million passengers last year, is Britain’s third largest outside London.
(Reporting by Sam Tabahriti, additional reporting by Sarah Young; Editing by Sachin Ravikumar and Catarina Demony)
