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Brussels airport avoids shutdown after finding fresh de-icer fluid
Dec 21, 2010, 9:55 GMT
Brussels - Brussels airport has avoided a shutdown after extra stocks of the de-icing fluid were found, Belgian media reported on Tuesday.
On Monday authorities explained that planes would have to be grounded from Monday evening to Wednesday morning because deliveries from the airport's usual supplier in France had been disrupted by the exceptionally heavy snowfall.
But Belgian newspaper Le Soir said Flightcare, one of the companies handling airplane maintenance at the airport, had managed to source some fluid from another firm, DHL.
'There are enough stocks ... to de-ice all out planes and allow them to depart over the next days,' Flightcare said.
Another handler operating at Brussels Airport, Aviapartner, said it would use a substitute product from Germany after its normal stocks of de-icer ran out on Monday.
On its website, Brussels Airport said there was enough liquid to handle 'most of the departing flights' scheduled on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, fresh snowfalls overnight wrought more havoc to other forms of transport, with around 330 kilometers of traffic jams on the motorways and delays on train and bus services.
The cold weather also produced a second victim: one person died of hypothermia in Aywaille on Monday, Le Soir reported. Another had died on Sunday, when the weight of snow caused the collapse of a roof in a barn.
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