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FLIGHTS TO STANSTED Airport are expected to resume as normal this morning after a fire on a shuttle bus forced departures to be cancelled yesterday.
A thick smoke and flames from the bus engulfed the waiting area of the terminal building, forcing the airport to cancel flights.
Passengers were told to leave the area and advised to re-book flights.
The airport said no injuries had been reported and that the fire – which was extinguished at about 5pm yesterday – had been caused by an engine electrical fault on the bus.
A number of Irish flights were impacted by the disruption.
In a statement, Ryanair said it regretted that it had been forced to cancel a number of flights, adding that some further flight delays and cancellations are likely.
The company urged customers to please monitor their flight details.
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Some Munster fans are caught up in this and may miss the match later.
@Tony Stack: I was caught in it, was some joke, Queuing up since 5 for the 7:30 flight to shannon, bus went on fire right outside the door, they decided to evacuated people already gone through and rescan them again causing a backlog, told at around 8 the flight was cancelled, no organisation or anything if anything else happens we were all screwed, Toulon fans flights cancelled too, no home for me now either this Easter.
@Paul Friday Shannon: I was on a plane waiting to taxi out. After about two hours the airport made the crew kick us out as we needed to go through security before we could take off. So that put us just outside arrivals with the line going from there to the departures. Ten people wide and a few hundred meters long.
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