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Photos: Belgrade airport closed after tires burst on plane

Belgrade - Numerous flights have had to be diverted and thousands of passengers have been stranded.

By AP

Published: Wed 12 Sep 2018, 12:31 PM

Last updated: Wed 12 Sep 2018, 3:28 PM

Belgrade airport has been temporarily closed after an Egyptair jet landed with burst tires, blocking the only runway.
Airport authorities said Wednesday numerous flights have had to be diverted and thousands of passengers have been stranded since the empty Boeing 737-800 landed at 4:11 a.m.

EgyptAir Boeing 737-800 (SU-GCO) operating on flight #MS3100 from Cairo suffered multiple tire blow-outs on landing runway 30 at Belgrade Airport (BEG, LROP). The aircraft was unable to leave the runway resulting in the temp. closure of the airport. https://t.co/T1MC9ebGUM pic.twitter.com/rBZxZF3htX
- JACDEC (@JacdecNew) September 12, 2018

Photos from the scene show two blown tires under the right wing undercarriage. There are conflicting reports about whether the tires burst on landing or were already blown.

3 aircraft are holding and waiting for the Egyptair aircraft to be moved away from the runway at Belgrade Airport. pic.twitter.com/ec1Wi7LIEY
- Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) September 12, 2018

Belgrade media reports say the runway could have also been damaged and technicians are trying to figure out how to tow the jet off the tarmac.
Most of the arriving flights have been diverted to the central Serbian town of Nis, or to Budapest in Hungary.
It was not clear when the only civilian airport in the Serbian capital will reopen.

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