A runaway whippet gave security crews a good run?on Saturday after forcing the closure of one runway at?Manchester Airport, airport officials said.
One flight from Istanbul was diverted to Birmingham and dozens of other flights were delayed during the chase, which lasted about 40 minutes at the United Kingdom's fourth busiest airport,?the Manchester Evening News reported.
Gary Brown, the airport?s duty manager, told the?newspaper that?his crews hustled for quite a while to collar the?dog after it ran away from its owners during a walk nearby.
Security officials raised the alarm about 10:40 a.m. local time to halt take-offs and landings after the speedy pet raced onto the air field, bypassing an access point into a cargo area, the newspaper reported.?
?It took some time to catch it. The airfield is obviously quite a big area," Brown said, adding, "Because of the delay, there was a buildup of flights and we had to suspend a Turkish Airways flight from Istanbul. It was diverted to Birmingham, refueled and has now made its way up here.
?Basically, if there is any lost animal on the runway, we have to stop all flights straight away. Fortunately, we?ve cleared the backlog.??
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