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Black ice: Plane comes off the runway in Hamburg
A Eurowings airline plane may have slipped off the runway into the grass verge due to black ice. photo
© Bodo Marks/dpa
The winter road conditions in Germany do not stop at the airport runways. An incident occurs when a plane lands in Hamburg.
Due to black ice, a Eurowings aircraft was forced to land after landing The runway at Hamburg Airport has come off. No one was injured, an airport spokeswoman told the dpa news agency.
The plane came from Stuttgart. Airport operations continued normally afterwards. The plane will be towed, she said.
According to a spokeswoman for Eurowings, black ice was the cause of the plane coming off the runway. The machine slipped while parking. All 89 passengers and the crew were able to leave the plane normally via the stairs and were taken to the terminal by bus.