Britain's Birmingham Airport closed after plane crash

Britain's Birmingham Airport was closed Friday afternoon after a light plane crashed and all flights at the airport were suspended afterwards, local media reported.

A Birmingham Airport spokesman said: "Following an incident on the airport site all flights are currently suspended and the airport is closed."

The incident involved a private Cessna aircraft coming to land at around 3:30 p.m. local time and two people, one seriously injured, were taken to a hospital for treatment.

One eyewitness described seeing the plane on fire as it came to land and then "break into fireball."

The crash caused large scale disruption to travelers, halting all flights and prompting traffic jam on roads surrounding the airport.

Source: Xinhua