Three landing jets ‘narrowly’ missed stepladder left on Birmingham runway

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UK investigators have disclosed that three aircraft landing at Birmingham airport in darkness narrowly missed a large ladder which had fallen from a maintenance vehicle in the touchdown zone of runway 33.

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