Disabled Aircraft Temporarily Shutters Tweed-New Haven Airport Runway

NEW HAVEN, CT — The Tweed New Haven Airport runway was closed Monday morning around 9 a.m., due to a disabled plane, the Airport Authority posted to Facebook.

In an advisory, Tweed noted that, "Runway 2-0 is temporarily closed after a small aircraft was disabled. No injuries reported and minor damage to aircraft."

The Airport noted that ground crews were working to remove the aircraft and reopen the runway.

Around 40 minutes later, it was reported that, "Runway 2-0 Is now open and the airport has returned to normal operations."

This event follows a plane crash Sunday into Long Island Sound after attemping an emergency landing at Tweed.

At approximately 10:24 AM local time, the pilot of aircraft N2242Z, a Piper PA-32 with two souls on board, declared an emergency while in communication with New York Air Traffic Control. The aircraft, en route from Bridgeport (BDR) to an unspecified destination, was approximately eight miles from Tweed-New Haven Airport (HVN) when it was redirected to HVN for an emergency landing.

HVN Tower and ground personnel immediately activated its emergency response protocols and notified relevant authorities. Shortly thereafter, the aircraft was reported down in Long Island Sound off the coast of Branford.

Earlier his month, a Breeze Airways plane bound for Florida "left the runway."

On May 18, Tweed posted that at around 5 p.m. that Sunday, "Flight MX700 departing to JAX experienced a minor taxiway excursion. All passengers and crew are safe and the airport is operating under normal conditions. Airline and airport teams are responding and working to resolve the situation promptly."

Nearly four hours later, the airport posted that the "taxiway excursion has been fully resolved."

The airport has just one asphalt runway. The crosswind runway was decommissioned in 2015 and has since been the subject of a Connecticut State Attorney General lawsuit, which was rejected, as well as an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Read that story here.