Crash landing causes mass delays

Summary:

The crash landing of a plain at Birmingham International airport has caused widespread disruption. The airport was closed for a while. It is fully reopened on Thursday, but there still is a large backlog of flights to be dealt with. More than thousand passengers had to go to other runways, including Manchester, Bristol, Coventry and Nottingham East Midlands Airport. No flights were able to land and at least 100 scheduled departures were stranded. Travelers whose inbound flights landed elsewhere were being brought back to Birmingham. An airport spokeswoman said staff would be working the whole night to clear the backlog and catch up.

My opinion.

I think it was a disaster that a crash landing took place in an airport like Birmingham International, but I am glad that the airport is reopened and the staff is still working to clear the backlog an to catch up. I have to confess that these kinds of news articles are making me really afraid to fly in a plain again. I have been afraid to fly all my life, but this article makes me more afraid, because Birmingham is a good airport and crash landings do happen there. But if it happens to me it had to be so, I can not stop it unfortunately…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/5083322.stm