Arsenal plane catches fire on runway to delay return from Wolfsburg

BATTLE: Wolfsburg's Jule Brand, right, challenges for the ball with Arsenal's Katie McCabe during the women's Champions League semi-final first leg in Wolfsburg. Pic: AP Photo/Martin Meissner

The plane due to carry the Arsenal squad back from their Women’s Champions League semi-final at Wolfsburg caught fire with the players on board, forcing them to disembark and stay an extra night in Germany.

Pictures showed flames coming from under the plane’s left wing on the runway, with the fire understood to have started after a bird flew into one of the engines.