SAN ANTONIO – Flights resumed at San Antonio International airport Saturday afternoon after a runway fire delayed takeoffs and landings for more than five hours.
A United Express flight that had waited on the runway for hours took off just after 2 p.m., and others soon followed.
The trouble began around 8:45 a.m. when a private plane landed with a fire in its landing gear.
Airport firefighters quickly put that fire out, but debris from the fire and the firefighting effort forced officials to close down the airport's runways.
Fire and cleanup crews worked to get the runways cleaned, but they had to wait hours for a crane to come from Austin to haul the plane away.
"The whole area needs to be cleared of debris because any small debris can be very very dangerous for a plane. Any plane, doesn't matter the size of it," senior public information officer, Evelynn Bailey said.
Once the crane arrived they hauled the plane onto a trailer and finally moved it from the runway.
Airport public information officer Evelynn Bailey said no one was injured in the fire.
There was an aircraft emergency this morning at SAT. There were no reported injuries but the runway has been shutdown...
Posted by San Antonio International Airport on Saturday, April 23, 2016