A runway at Gando airport was blocked for an hour and a half yesterday after a Binter Canarias flight from Gran Canaria to Fuerteventura had to be aborted as it was about to take off due to overheating brakes.

According to air traffic controllers (ATC) via their official X (Twitter) account, the aircraft requested help from firefighters from the Gando terminal, forcing airlines and ATC to work for over an hour and a half with only one runway.

The controllers explained in their tweet that t