Runway Damage Forces Brief Budapest Airport Closure

Loose runway paving at Budapest airport Wednesday punctured a wheel on a Wizzair flight arriving from Stockholm and briefly forced the airport's closure, air traffic controllers told the Hungarian news agency MTI.

"A piece of dislodged concrete on a runway pierced a wheel" on the Hungarian low-cost airline's Airbus A321 plane, said Anita Kiss, a spokeswoman for Hungaro Control.

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