Chaos and panic at Budapest Airport: passengers locked into hot bus
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People with small children begged in tears for airport staff to let them out from a superhot bus in which nobody could breathe. However, the real difficulties followed only that incident for the passengers of a flight to London-Luton at the Budapest Airport. Here is what happened exactly.
Index.hu received a complaining email from one of their readers about the chaos and panic at the Budapest Airport. The Hungarian news outlet argues that it is incomprehensible why airport staff did not let the passengers out from a shuttle bus despite the panic that broke out inside because of the high temperature and the lack of air.
Everything started with the extreme heat that hit the United Kingdom this week. The heatwave caused issues with the runways of the London-Luton airport. Therefore, they suspended take-offs and landings on Monday because the surface of a runway segment melted due to the heat. The consequences were felt everywhere in Europe, including the Budapest Airport. A Monday evening flight to London-Luton did not receive take-off permission. All passengers had to leave their flight even though they had been sitting in it for an hour.
After four hours of waiting, boarding restarted. “They put us on a bus and locked it for half an hour.
Mothers with small kids shouted that there was no air and wanted the doors opened.