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Groton-New London Airport has reopened after a closure Sunday, according to a Connecticut Airport Authority official. Public information officer Ryan Tenny said the airport reopened around 6:30 p.m. after closing around 5 p.m. A “single engine aircraft had an incident at the airport,” closing it, according to Tenny. Tenny said he couldn’t comment further on the details of the incident, but added that no injuries were reported.
Officials respond to plane landing off runway at Hartford s Brainard Airport
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HARTFORD Emergency crews responded to Brainard Airport Sunday when a plane landed off a runway, according to a fire department spokesperson.
District Fire Chief Mario Oquendo Jr. wrote in a message that there weren’t any injuries in the incident, as well as that the “plane was secured” and fuel hadn’t leaked.
“Our companies will be clearing shortly,” Oquendo wrote in a message. “No additional information provided at this time.”
The incident around 1:45 p.m. involved “a private single-engine aircraft,” according to Connecticut Airport Authority spokesperson Ryan Tenny.
PROVO When BYU s football team was forced to go it alone through the 2020 college football season as the only active team west of Texas, the Cougars marched on.
Cobbling together a schedule of any team it could find during the COVID-19 pandemic and with the Pac-12, Big Ten and Mountain West initially opting out of the season BYU put together its best season in over a decade with an 11-1 record and top-15 finish in every major national poll, capped by a win over UCF in the Boca Raton Bowl.
The Cougars had a banner year on the field in 2020, and it led to a banner draft, with the most selections in the top-seven rounds since 2002.