How irresponsible of MAN to declare a runway with a known hazard unavailable for use until the problem was rectified. Nobody should be allowed to defend this!
I would like to point out I am not questioning the judgement of closing the runway, its obvious why it was closed, I am more concerned why it took so bloody long to catch the thing.
I must admit that whilst I do like MAN airport, I agree with Mr Hudd that there seems to be this tedious chorus of supporters willing to defend every single action of MAN, no matter how trivial/serious and just down right stupid the event was. There only seems to be a few people bemused and questioning why a large international airport was closed for such a long time, by a dog!
If this had happened at LHR there would have been chaos and no end of media reports. But nope, MAN is fine and looks squeky clean in light of 2 prolonged closures in 2 days.