Air control tower was evacuated when Univ. of Michigan basketball team plane wrecked

[TexasTowelie]

Investigators continue to inspect a plane that had to abort takeoff and crashed through barricades while carrying the Michigan basketball team at Willow Run Airport, in Ypsilanti, Mich., on Thursday, March 9, 2017. Melanie Maxwell | The Ann Arbor News

VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, MI - The air traffic control tower at Willow Run Airport was evacuated due to high winds when a plane carrying the University of Michigan basketball team, staff and band members aborted its takeoff.

The charter jet went off a runway, through an airport security fence, across a service road and crashed into a field. Some of the 109 people aboard the aircraft sustained minor injuries.

Elizabeth Isham Cory, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said the Willow Run control tower was evacuated due to high winds and air traffic control at the airport was transferred to Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

She said that flights take-off and land at airports without control towers all the time and there are no regulations that link takeoff and landing with a tower.

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/03/air_traffic_control_tower_had.html

[AllaN01Bear]

1. glad to hear that only minor injories were involved.

[get the red out]

2. One of my big fears

That is a big fear of mine during the spring basketball tournaments with so many teams flying here and there. That is so scary!