Wrong de-icer blamed for flights chaos

Dublin Airport was hit with a second day of travel chaos after ground crews struggled with the wrong de-icer to clear piles of frozen slush from parking bays and taxiways.

Dublin Airport was hit with a second day of travel chaos after ground crews struggled with the wrong de-icer to clear piles of frozen slush from parking bays and taxiways.

Thousands of passengers were hit with cancellations and delays as ground crews were reduced to digging-out hard-packed clumps of ice because the de-icer failed to work.

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