Carjacker pursuit closes Dallas Love

DALLAS (AP) - The main runway at Dallas Love Field has reopened, about nine minutes after a police chase ended in a field beside it.

The runway was closed about 3:15 p.m. Thursday after the driver of a pickup truck sought in a carjacking crashed through a chain-link gate and drove onto the tarmac and taxiways of the busy Dallas airport, closing it immediately.

The chase continued around the airport taxiways and across the end of the main airport runway before police surrounded the car on the grass beside the taxiway and pulled the driver from the cab.

The chase had wended through the freeways and side streets, with one of the truck's wheels down to a hub, before the hour-long chase ended up on the Love Field tarmac.

Southwest Airlines spokesman Brad Hawkins says the airport where Southwest is based and hubbed was closed by the chase, but reopened a short time after it ended and resumed normal operations. There was no answer to calls to the City of Dallas Aviation Department, which operates the airport.