Story being carried by Reuters......
LONDON, May 30 (Reuters) - Passengers travelling from Britain to the Caribbean found themselves stranded on Thursday on the tiny island of Antigua after their plane became stuck in the runway's tarmac.
"It basically became lodged in the tarmac while turning on the runway," a British Airways spokeswoman told Reuters, adding that resurfacing work had been carried out at the airport overnight.
The 140 passengers, who were en route to another Caribbean island, St Lucia, were being put up in a hotel while engineers inspected the damage.
It was unclear when the Boeing 777 would be freed.
Thursday, 30 May 2002 07:50:55