Revealed: Company which built £20m Luton airport car park destroyed by inferno went BUST last month...

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Range Rover ablaze at Luton car park before sparking plane, train, and automobile chaos, trapping passengers. Fire crews spent some 12 hours battling the inferno at the airport's £20million Terminal Car Park 2.

. Buckingham Contracting Group won contract in 2018 to build airport car park. Company went bust on September 4 amid 'significant cash flow pressures'The company which constructed the London Luton Airport car park that collapsed during a major fire entered administration just five weeks ago, MailOnline can reveal.

Also involved in the car park construction was a Lancashire-based company called Raised Floor Solutions , although it was not the builder or main contractor. READ MORE Is this the car that started the Luton airport car park fire? Moment Range Rover explodes before £20m multi-storey structure collapses

At the time, Buckingham was performing well having reported an 20 per cent rise in profits for 2017 and a 3.9 per cent margin - its highest in a decade. At the time, Buckingham's chairman Mike Kempley said he was left 'extremely sad' by the death of the company which had a turnover of £665million, reported Construction News.

The fire was declared a major incident, with firefighters working through the night and into the early hours of today to extinguish the blaze.

 

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