> The pilots followed their checklists and worked with maintenance personnel via phone to troubleshoot, but were unable to get the engines to relight. This left the aircraft stranded and led to the closure of the runway. A tow truck arrived some 40 minutes later to tow the aircraft off the runway.
It's ambiguous to me because the runway would presumably be closed as soon as the plane got stuck and not after waiting for the engines to restart. So the obvious reading of the sentence doesn't make sense.
> The pilots followed their checklists and worked with maintenance personnel via phone to troubleshoot, but were unable to get the engines to relight. This left the aircraft stranded and led to the closure of the runway. A tow truck arrived some 40 minutes later to tow the aircraft off the runway.