Plane unable to land as police chase suspect on to Dallas runway

A plane was forced to make a second landing attempt after police chased a suspected carjacker on to the runway of a U.S. airport.
Officers had been chasing the man for an hour yesterday when he crashed through a locked chain-link fence and raced across the runways at Dallas Love Field.
Both major runways were shut down, flight departures were shut down, and at least one flight was forced to stay in the air and attempt a second landing as police carreened across the runways in pursuit.
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Pursuit: Police cars give chase as a carjacking suspect in a grey pick-up truck careens onto a runway in Dallas, Texas

Dangerous: The suspect's car was rammed by police just feet from where taxiing flights were waiting on the runway

Gotcha: The suspect - who appears to be shirtless - is arrested and taken away by police

The drama came to an end when the man's pickup truck was surrounded and rammed by officers, who were prepared to use deadly force.
The chase began when an undercover police officer spotted a truck that had been reported stolen a day earlier in Fort Worth, Deputy Chief Jesse Reyes said.
Television footage showed police appearing to patiently pursue the slow-moving pickup from expressways to side streets until it drove through the airport fence.
It raced along the airport taxiways and past one end of its busiest runway.
Reyes said that once the chase was on a runway 'police were prepared to use deadly force'.

Desperate measures: Officers inspect the suspect's truck, which had been rammed by a patrol car

Not a comforting sight from the air: What passengers in the planes overhead may have seen as they passed over the drama yesterday

Instead, a patrol car rammed the truck, disabling the vehicle.
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, chairman of the City Council Public Safety Committee, said he was concerned that the subject of an apparently routine police chase was able to get onto airport grounds so easily.
'I think that the whole game changed when he ended up on the runways and threatened multiple lives,' Caraway said.
The driver was a suspect in several offences in both Dallas and Fort Worth, including a carjacking and robberies, Reyes said.
Reyes said the man, whose identity has not been released, complained of chest pains after his arrest and was taken to a hospital.
He would not be charged until he is released from the hospital, Reyes said.
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