{"id":622883,"date":"2022-09-05T13:51:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=622883"},"modified":"2022-09-05T13:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:51:26","slug":"south-africas-biggest-airport-closes-a-runway-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/622883\/south-africas-biggest-airport-closes-a-runway-after-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s biggest airport closes a runway after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg\u2019s OR Tambo International Airport was forced to close one of its runways after dry grass caught fire and \u201cspilled over from the adjacent community within the airport precinct,\u201d it said via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and rescue teams are onsite to extinguish the blaze, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ortambo-airport.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OR <\/a>Tambo, which is the busiest airport in Africa.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Temporary Closure of Runway 21L\/03R <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x3UKgkPZ5S\">pic.twitter.com\/x3UKgkPZ5S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ORTambo (@ortambo_int) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ortambo_int\/status\/1566734642207678464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The runway that has been closed is typically used for landings because it\u2019s long, at more than 4.4 kilometers (2.7 miles), which helps planes land in the thinner air at Johannesburg\u2019s relatively high altitude, aviation society Scramble said on its website.<\/p>\n<p>In Johannesburg and surrounds it\u2019s the end of a dry winter and there are frequent fires until the rains arrive, usually in October.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/622765\/national-treasury-is-hiring-and-looking-for-these-skills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Treasury is hiring \u2013 and looking for these skills<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg\u2019s OR Tambo International Airport was forced to close one of its runways after dry grass caught fire and \u201cspilled over from the adjacent community within the airport precinct,\u201d it said via Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":590928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-622883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622891,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622883\/revisions\/622891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}