ADVERTISEMENTOrio al Serio airport within the northern Italian city of Bergamo suspended flights on Tuesday because of a runway incident.
Local media reported that it was attributable to someone running onto the tarmac and getting sucked into an airport engine.
The Volotea flight headed to Asturias in Spain was performing a manoeuvre before taking off.
All flights suspended at Bergamo airport
The Bergamo Milan airport authority, often known as SACBO, closed the Bergamo-Orio al Serio airport at 10.20 local time.
All flights were suspended “because of an issue that occurred on the taxiway.”
These included Ryanair services to Crotone, Prague, Zadar, Tirana, Kos, Malta, Naples, Porto, Alghero, and a Eurowings flight to Dusseldorf.
Air traffic resumed at 12pm, but there are still some delays.
These include Ryanair services to Fez, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Bristol and Cagliari, an AJet flight to Istanbul and an AirArabia flight to Casablanca.
Authorities open investigation at Bergamo airport
An investigation is underway into the incident.
Corriere della Sera newspaper, citing unnamed airport officials, said the 35-year-old man had abandoned his automotive outside the terminal and run through the arrivals area on the bottom floor.
He accessed the runway via a security door and ran towards the Volotea plane because it was pushing back in preparation for takeoff.
Ansa, an Italian news agency, confirmed the victim was neither a passenger nor an airport worker. It added that the person is assumed to have taken his own life.
There was no immediate response to calls placed to the authority’s headquarters.
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