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Plane crashes onto road in Italy after overshooting runway

The DHL cargo plane crashed in Bergamo after landing in apparent bad weather

The DHL courier company’s Boeing 737-400 cargo aircraft rests on a road after it came off the runway after landing at the airport of Bergamo Orio al Serio, Italy, 05 August 2016. Photograph: Matteo Bazi/EPA
Fri Aug 05 2016 - 11:51

A cargo plane has overshot the runway at Bergamo’s Orio as Serio international airport and crashed into a road.

The airport in Italy’s Lombardy region was temporarily closed after the incident which happened at 4am Friday morning.

Dramatic pictures showed a 737-400 aircraft belonging to courier firm DHL wedged onto a road at the end of the runway.

The DHL courier company’s Boeing 737-400 cargo aircraft rests on a road after it came off the runway after landing at the airport of Bergamo Orio al Serio, Italy, 05 August 2016. Photograph: Matteo Bazi/EPA
Firefighters work on DHL cargo plane that skidded off a runway at Orio al Serio airport overnight, busting through a perimeter fence and onto a provincial highway, near Bergamo in Northern Italy, Friday, August 5th, 2016. Photograph: Matteo Bazzi/ANSA via AP Photo

The plane had landed at 4.07am after a flight from Paris Charles De Gaulle.

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The two-person crew of the aircraft was unharmed and there were no injuries on the ground, Italy’s civil aviation authority ENAC said in a statement.

The Corriere de la Serra newspaper said the incident happened during bad weather in the area.

The paper carried a statement from Sacbo, the company that runs the airport saying the airport of Bergamo was back operating at 6.47 am.

The Italian air regulator, the National Agency for Civil Aviation, said some flights had been rescheduled and rerouted through Milan’s Malpensa airport.

Guardian Service