Ryanair cancels all flights as Derry Airport shut down

THE British civil aviation authorities have temporarily shut down the City of Derry Airport grounding all commercial flights as and from today.

The airport was recently the focus of a mock plane crash, one of the largest ever emergency exercises staged in the North. Police, fire and ambulance crews as well as doctors at hospitals took part in the training involving 1,200 people.

Since then, the British commercial airline authority, the CAA, has been reviewing “variations to safety regulations” in cooperation with the airport executives.