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A debris from a Russian satellite quite hits a Lan Chile Airbus A-340

Wellington , New Zealand - A disaster averted

Last Tuesday, a Lan Chile's Airbus A-340, left from Santiago and bound to Auckland, was quite hit by a debris from a Russian satellite crashed down on the Pacific ocean 12 hours before its expected re-entry. The event immediately determined the intervention of New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), that tried to investigate the actual reason of the missed disaster, prevented by a poor flaming...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1071688
Rome, Italy, 03/29/2007 12:10
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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