Belfast City Airport’s runway is to remain closed for the remainder of Sunday night after an aircraft was involved in an emergency incident during a landing. It is understood that an Aer Lingus regional flight run by Emerald Airlines was involved in an incident on landing and suffered a collapsed nose wheel. The airport said the incident happened at about 4pm on Sunday, no passengers were on board but there were four crew members on the flight from Edinburgh. No serious injuries were reported on the twin-engined turboprop short-haul craft. Several flights have been redirected to Belfast International Airport. In a statement, Belfast City Airport said its “emergency procedures had been enacted. “This was a positioning fight with no passengers but four crew members [were] on board. The airport’s emergency procedures were enacted. The runway is currently closed and will be for the rest of the day. Passengers are asked to contact their airline.”<br/>
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Turkey's low-cost carrier AJet, a wholly owned subsidiary of Turkish Airlines is in talks with lessors to procure 36 aircraft to keep its growth plans on track, following delays in Boeing deliveries, its CE said. "We're in talks with lessors to provide 36 jets next year, with Airbus aircraft mainly in focus. We are looking to leasing and purchasing options," AJet CEO Kerem Sarp told Reuters. Turkey's flag carrier Turkish Airlines spun off its low-cost sub-brand AnadoluJet last year, as part of a broader repositioning, and established a new company in a move to boost competitiveness and allow the airline to grow faster in the low-cost aviation arena. Launching its flights in March under the new brand AJet, it is currently negotiating with lessors with Airbus models in focus, in order to achieve its 13% available seat per kilometer (ASK) growth and 23m passenger targets for 2025, as deliveries of 36 MAX jets set for next year have been delayed, Sarp told Reuters.<br/>
Norwegian investigators have initiated an inquiry after a Boeing 737-800 overran the runway at the coastal Molde airport during landing. The aircraft, arriving from Oslo as DY430 on 19 December, came to a halt partially off runway 25, which is 2,220m in length. Norwegian safety investigation authority SHK says the crew was “unable to stop the aircraft on the runway”. None of the passengers and crew members, who evacuated from the aircraft’s left side, was injured. Meteorological data from Molde at the time of the incident, just after 19:00, indicates rain and snow showers, with a crosswind component from the right. SHK says the aircraft “entered a snow shower” at around 50-100ft, just before touchdown, and the captain noticed the runway was “slippery” and the jet was experiencing “poor braking”. It adds that the 737 struck a runway light before coming to a halt about 10m past the runway edge. The threshold for Molde’s opposite-direction runway 07 lies about 180m from water.<br/>