Britain's Birmingham Airport closed after plane cr

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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 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one seriously injured [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 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 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], halting all flights and prompting traffic jam on roads surrounding the airport.