Hundreds of holidays in turmoil as Gatwick Airport briefly suspended all flights after aircraft caught on runway with sizzling brakes

All flights have been briefly suspended at Gatwick Airport this afternoon after a British Airways flight was compelled to make an emergency cease on the runway. 

The Boeing 777 jet was seen blocking all different flights from taking off, sparking journey chaos for 1000’s of British holidaymakers. 

Video footage taken from passengers onboard the flight confirmed fireplace engines making their approach over to the stationary automobile, with travellers being instructed take-off had been ‘aborted’. 

Flight G-VIIT BA2279 was resulting from depart to Vancouver this afternoon earlier than it was compelled to do a ‘high-speed emergency cease’. 

A press release from the airport mentioned the aircraft had been deserted ‘because of the departing plane having sizzling breaks’. 

All flights have been briefly suspended at Gatwick Airport this afternoon after a British Airways flight was compelled to an emergency cease on the runway

In line with journey knowledgeable Simon Calder no less than 12 flights have been diverted together with an Emirates A380 flight from Dubai that was as an alternative compelled to land in Brussels

Video footage taken from passengers onboard the flight confirmed fireplace engines making its approach over to the stationary automobile, with travellers being instructed take-off had been ‘aborted’

In line with journey knowledgeable Simon Calder no less than 12 flights have been diverted together with an Emirates A380 flight from Dubai that was as an alternative compelled to land in Brussels. 

It’s unknown what number of flights in whole have been affected on what’s the busiest aviation day of the yr to this point.  

The airport’s runway was compelled to shut following a ‘rejected take-off’, in line with flight monitoring web site Flightradar24. The web site reported the closure at 12.53pm reopening at 1.14pm.  

‘Security is our prime precedence and the devoted airport fireplace service swiftly attended to assist the plane,’ a spokesperson added. ‘A variety of flights have been diverted. The runway is now open and working as regular.’ 

A British Airways spokesperson mentioned: ‘Our pilots took the precautionary determination to cancel take-off resulting from a technical subject.

‘Security is at all times our prime precedence and we apologise to clients for the inconvenience induced.’

It marks yet one more hiccup this week for households making an attempt to get away for the summer season.

JUNE 14 — Large queues at Birmingham Airport earlier this month as passengers wait outdoors

Departing passengers queue for safety inside Birmingham Airport very first thing this morning

An extended queue of automobiles to get into the drop-off space at Birmingham Airport this afternoon

Households flying from Birmingham Airport confronted lengthy queues for safety with one passenger describing it as a ‘well being and security catastrophe’. 

Travellers utilizing the airport have confronted waits of as much as a number of hours to get via the terminal in latest weeks following the opening of a £60million safety corridor. 

The brand new space will ultimately permit passengers to go away liquids as much as two litres and huge electrical objects in cabin baggage whereas they undergo safety, however recent authorities restrictions imply passengers are nonetheless solely restricted to 100ml bottles.

One video filmed earlier this week confirmed a protracted queue of automobiles ready to get into the drop-off space at this time.  Witness Olly Carruthers mentioned it was ‘chaos’ with the zone ‘fully damaged and backing up’.

One other traveller mentioned he had waited for greater than an hour by 5.30am this morning and had nonetheless not reached the lifts to move safety – with 1,000 individuals within the queue.

The airport – which additionally denied the determine of 1,000 individuals within the queue – instructed how employees eliminated 0.8 tonnes of liquids, pastes and gels in containers which have been over the 100ml hand baggage restrict going via safety between 3.30am and 7am.