According to reports, a fox had entered Heathrow Airport’s runway and prevented flights from landing there today.
After the creature was seen walking on the ground, several aircrafts had to abandon landing at Heathrow Airport’s Southern 27R runway.
Elsewhere airport staff were seen escorting a British Airways Airbus A350-1041, which was flying from Dubai, after reports of a possible bird strike when landing.
After a fox got onto the runway, flights were unable to land at Heathrow Airport today
Today’s images from the airport’s flight tracking system showed several aircraft repeatedly flying around the airport during chaos.
A flight from Iberian was forced to land at an isolated runway because of issues.
Today a message on Heathrow Airport’s social media page read: ‘Good afternoon, due to circumstances beyond our control we will switch our runways at 15:30, landing on the northern runway 27R and taking off from the southern runway 27L.’
MailOnline reached out to Heathrow Airport in order for comments.
Images taken from today’s airports flight trackinger show multiple planes repeatedly circle the airport