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| East Midlands Airport shut by Spitfire undercarriage collapse | East Midlands Airport shut by Spitfire undercarriage collapse |
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| The runway at East Midlands Airport has closed after a Second World War Spitfire's undercarriage collapsed as it was coming in to land. | |
| The pilot has not been seriously injured but the runway has been closed while debris is cleared away, a spokesperson said. | The pilot has not been seriously injured but the runway has been closed while debris is cleared away, a spokesperson said. |
| Flights to East Midlands Airport are currently being diverted to Birmingham. | Flights to East Midlands Airport are currently being diverted to Birmingham. |
| A spokesman for East Midlands Airport advised any passengers booked on flights to check in as usual. | |
| He said: "All inbound flights have been diverted and outbound flights have been suspended, but we are expecting to be operational within two hours." | |
| Edward Coxon from Hartshorne, Derbyshire, who was plane spotting at the airport when the landing happened at about 15:30 GMT, said: "I was just looking at the planes coming in when all of a sudden there were loads of blue lights coming in from the other end of the runway. | |
| "That's when I saw the plane in the middle of the runway. I could hear on the radio that there was only one person on board and he was fine." | |
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