Crime & Safety
Lightning Strike Closes BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
Incoming flights have been diverted to other airports.

By Bryan P. Sears
A lightning strike to the control tower at Baltimore Washington InternationalΒ Thurgood Marshall Airport closed the facility to air traffic Thursday.
The airport reported on its Twitter account that lightning from afternoon thunderstorms hadΒ grounded all planes. IncomingΒ air traffic has been diverted.
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