Just a quick note to say that the airport was shut for a little while last night after a bmi A320 decided to throw a wobbler
I believe it was backtracking out off the 'B' taxiway down to the 23 end to turn round when one of it's engines went bang and set itself on fire
. The aircraft was then evacuated on the runway and the airport fire brigade put out the fire pretty quick. This all happened about 1835, the aircraft was towed off and the runway cleaned of oil etc that had come out of the knackered engine. The runway was reopened by 2000, a good job done by the team all round I think
bmi diverted in the '7EH' Edinburgh - Heathrow flight to pick up the stranded (47!
) passengers and take them down to Heathrow
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