Breaking: Incident at Dallas' Love Field Shuts Down Runway

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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.

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'.