A nothing incident closes airport at peak of holiday travel season

 Thu 7:31 am +00:00, 7 Aug 2025  1

posted by Tapestry

All flights are currently on hold at Birmingham Airport following an ‘incident with a light aircraft’ on the runway that left one person injured.

A number of planes have been diverted from the West Midlands airport, while others have been delayed significantly. At 2.48pm, Birmingham Airport’s official Twitter account announced that its runway was closed. Two hours later, security and check-in was closed, as was the runway.

A picture from the scene shows a white light-aircraft on a runway surrounded by emergency vehicles. The unfolding incident at Birmingham comes after a union in Spain announced its Ryanair workers would strike at 12 airports in the coming weeks.

TAP – Never a day goes by without some supposed news designed to put you off from travel.  This incident was not a major and the plane landed very smoothly.  No details of any injury are given.  I’m sceptical.