Geneva airport flights resume after private jet mishap

Flight operations at Geneva Airport were suspended for four hours on Wednesday evening. The reason: A private jet had veered off the only runway and got stuck in the grass.

Nobody was hurt but almost 100 flights were affected.

According to the airport’s website, no flights had taken off or landed since around 5.30pm. The runway was reopened around 9.45pm. The fire brigade’s operation was over, it said on their website.