According to the CAAP, the Butuan Area Manager has issued a runway closure order which will be in effect until Sunday afternoon. CAAP said the closure order “may be revised or cancelled earlier if status thereat changes.”
Cebu Pacific flight 5J 220 from Butuan to Cebu was grounded “after the aircraft nose wheel went off the runway 30 of Butuan Airport as it was turning in preparation for takeoff.”
The accident prompted Cebu Pacific to cancel the Butuan-Cebu flight as well as “two turn around flights of Cebu Pacific from Manila to Butuan and back on flights 5J 785/786 and 5J791/792 and Cebu Butuan Cebu 5J 223/5J22.”
The plane, an Airbus A319, has been grounded and the CAAP has sent a team of aircraft accident investigators to determine what caused the accident. — JDS, GMA News
