“The airport operations team immediately attended to resolving the matter. Thereafter a runway inspection was conducted complying to all protocol processes ahead of the reopening of the runway.”
Myataza said operations have returned to normal except for knock-on effects of the incident, which resulted in two flights from Cape Town being diverted to Johannesburg.
A third flight was diverted to Johannesburg but returned to Durban after the runway was cleared.
“King Shaka International Airport would like to apologise to all passengers for the inconvenience caused.”
Kobus Marais, the DA’s shadow minister for defence and military veterans, said the incident could have occurred because of “some mechanical reason”.
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