137 passengers have narrow escape at Edinburgh Airport

A Centralwings Boeing 737 carrying 137 passengers averted disaster after a security officer spotted a hole in its fuselage and radioed the control tower to give the warning as the flight prepared to take-off from Edinburgh Airport. The jet had been damaged when a tow truck pulling it away from the terminal building backed the plane against an airfield blast barrier yesterday morning.

A hole the size of a football was torn in the fuselage near the wings of the plane which was bound for Gdansk in Poland.