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Then it was a fire, with flames shooting out of a moving walkway on Concourse E, filling the area with smoke and forcing an evacuation. Nearly half the 36 gates on the concourse were closed about four hours until 9:15 p.m.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport is in the middle of a power struggle between the city and the state. The state legislature passed a law last week giving control of the city s airport to an authority. But a judge has issued an injunction that leaves the city in control, at least for the time being. enterpirse car rental And Jerry Orr, the airport enterpirse car rental director since 1989, is out of a job.
US Airways Flight 720 left Charlotte for Rome at 6:10 p.m., but it was diverted to Philadelphia, according to several flight-tracking websites. Those sites show the flight never left Philadelphia overnight.
By 3:45 p.m., passengers had been aboard the jet but stuck at the gate for more than two hours as temperatures enterpirse car rental inside the aircraft climbed. The flight finally took off at 4 p.m., US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson said.
Airport spokeswoman Lee Davis says investigators determined the fire was confined to the motor of the moving walkway. That walkway was still out of service early Thursday. Concourse E was reopened shortly after 8 p.m. Wednesday.
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