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Airport affected by hare-y situation
18 June 2007
Passengers endured three hours of delays at Milan's Linate airport as staff tried to catch a number of rabbits and hares.
The animals had made their way onto the hub's runways and had to be removed before flights could resume.
A total of 57 hares and four rabbits were hunted down and captured, before being housed in a fenced-off area and handed over to nearby nature reserves.
The delays led to wide-scale disruption for many passengers but airport officials insisted that the action taken was necessary to ensure aircraft could take off and land safely.
'It was necessary because animals passing in front of ground radar were creating false alarms in the control towers,' Marco Alberti, a director of SEA, the company which manages Milan's airports, told Reuters.
The capture of the animals was announced as a success and flights soon returned to a normal schedule.
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The animals had made their way onto the hub's runways and had to be removed before flights could resume.
A total of 57 hares and four rabbits were hunted down and captured, before being housed in a fenced-off area and handed over to nearby nature reserves.
The delays led to wide-scale disruption for many passengers but airport officials insisted that the action taken was necessary to ensure aircraft could take off and land safely.
'It was necessary because animals passing in front of ground radar were creating false alarms in the control towers,' Marco Alberti, a director of SEA, the company which manages Milan's airports, told Reuters.
The capture of the animals was announced as a success and flights soon returned to a normal schedule.
Click here to plan and book flights, hotels, city breaks, rental cars and holidays with Opodo.
© Adfero Ltd
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