Plane overshoots airport (luton) runway

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Plane overshoots airport runway
A private light aircraft has overshot the runway at Luton Airport leading to the suspension of all flights.
Passengers have been advised that flights are likely to be suspended for most of Wednesday night.

A spokesman from Easyjet, which is based in Luton, said flights that could be diverted to Stansted Airport, Essex, would be.

Luton Airport stressed the incident was not security related. No-one was injured in the incident.

It is thought that special coaches have been brought in to bus passengers to Stansted.

Bedfordshire Fire Service confirmed that a light aircraft, a Cessna Citation, overshot the runway after suffering hydraulic problems.

The two people on board were uninjured, but the wreckage had to be cleared from the runway.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/5365608.stm

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The aircraft in question is G-CDCX, a Cessna Citation X!

Hardly what most of us would call a "private light aircraft"............ :confused: