From their book of excuses came a couple of crackers
There are reasons as to why you sometimes get various "information" about things that have happened. For example, if an aircraft had crashed on the runway and everybody had died, we aren't going to lay that one on you over the RT!! More than likely we will say "Runway x is closed due to an incident". In addition, these situations are often fluid and so what is true one minute is often no longer the case the next minute and so the reasons change. Tag on to that the fact that if a runway is closed for a while and then re-opens suddenly it may not be possible to make all the aircraft in the queue magically disappear hence leading to even more "excuses".
But believe me, we give you all the information we are able to over the RT, but I suggest if you want to know what the misfortune is on the closed runway then ask your company!
And remember, sometimes even we don't know when we are getting the tarmac released back to us!
