Playing dogs delay airplane landings
Two passenger planes of Macedonia’s national carrier MAT were stacked above Skopje airport until a pack of stray dogs could be cleared from the runway to let them land safely, officials said Thursday.
A flight from Vienna and another from Zurich were ordered to circle the airfield Wednesday after security noticed the dogs “playing around” on the airfield’s only runway. The plane coming from Zurich was less than one kilometer from landing when the pilot was told to abort and pull up.
“Passengers were upset when they heard the roar from the engines as I pulled up,” chief pilot Blagoja Kukulovski told local media. “We were flying in bad weather. To calm everyone down we had to explain what was the reason.”
The two planes circled for 30 minutes around the capital until the dogs were driven off. Airport authorities were checking for any holes in the airport fences.
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