Flight with 98 passengers finishes on the grass at Birmingham Airport

A FLIGHT finished up on the grass after landing at Birmingham Airport.

No-one was injured in the incident which happened after a chartered aircraft from Paderborn in Germany landed on Sunday afternoon.

The plane’s operator, Lithuanian company Small Planet Airlines, said: “All 98 passengers safely disembarked the aircraft and [there were] no injuries for passengers and the crew”.

A spokesperson for Birmingham Airport confirmed the aircraft had been “manoeuvred off the taxiway into grass after landing”.

Despite the incident, no other flights were delayed.

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