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Bram Fischer Airport re-opened after emergency landing─── MJ LOURENS 22:45 Thu, 12 Mar 2015
Bloemfontein - Flights are now departing to their destinations from the Bram Fischer International Airport.
Earlier, it was a no go for flights to and from Bloemfontein after teams on the ground had to remove a plane that made an emergency landing due to landing gear failure, just after 16:00 today.
BFIA closed the airport for all flight operations, and flights were indefinitely delayed. This after a privately owned Beechcraft 65 had to do a belly landing and obstructed both runways at BFIA.
Two crew members and four passengers were on-board the Beechcraft plane which was en-route to a destination in the Karoo/Kalahari and departed from Grand Central Airport. Nobody sustained injuries.
With all the flight operations delayed about 200 passengers were inconvenienced and on standby at various airports of which airlines' frequent BFIA, those airport destinations being OR Tambo, Durban and Kimberley.
The airport has been opened for all operations at 21:25 on Thursday night.
MJ Lourens/OFM News
