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| Stansted Airport fire: Terminal evacuated after bus blaze shuts building | Stansted Airport fire: Terminal evacuated after bus blaze shuts building |
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| Stansted Airport's terminal was partially evacuated after a bus caught fire close to the main building. | Stansted Airport's terminal was partially evacuated after a bus caught fire close to the main building. |
| Flames and large plumes of smoke were seen billowing into the air after the blaze took hold. | |
| Flights were delayed as airport officials said they were urgently investigating the fire that broke out on the car park shuttle bus. | |
| At least one fire engine rushed to the scene and police diverted traffic away from the terminal. | |
| The airport tweeted later that the blaze was put out but passengers said that in that time flights had been delayed. | |
| Some complained at being stuck outside the terminal building; others were dismayed by what they said was the absence of an action plan. | |
| At 4.40pm the airport said: "Due to a fire on the car park shuttle bus, terminal forecourt and surrounded area including parts of the terminal building are being evacuated due to smoke. We are investigating this as a matter of urgency and will provide an update shortly." | |
| At least one take-off was delayed, with a passenger tweeting: "We are inside the plane - apparently we do not have permission to fly as the airport mixed the inbound with the outbound travellers.... This is what the pilot just told us .... Unbelievable." | |
| Another traveller said: "No one really knows what they are doing. We had to stand for 10 min 20 m away from fire just to wait for someone to make a decision of next action plan." | |
| Others said they had been held in baggage areas. | |
| By 5.15pm the airport reported that the fire had been extinguished. | |
| Passengers due to fly tonight were advised to contact their airline. | |