BREAKING: Romanian plane damaged during landing in Budapest, runway closed!
The tyres of a Romanian Tarom carrier aircraft were damaged on arrival from Bucharest at Budapest’s International Liszt Ferenc Airport on Sunday, the airport operator told MTI.
A spokesperson for Budapest Airport said the tyres were damaged when the plane left the runway and turned onto a taxi way, adding that nobody was injured. An investigation is under way into the possible causes of the incident.
Katalin Valentínyi, the Chief Corporate Communications and Government Relations Officer at Budapest Airport, said the Tarom ATR 72-600 aircraft was unable to move after the accident. She added that no injuries took place, and they would transfer the 71 passengers and four crew to the terminal with buses, telex.hu wrote.
She said the accident happened at 6.21 PM. Runway 2 will remain closed until 10 PM. All air traffic will be redirected to runway 1, portfolio.hu wrote.
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