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Brazil: precautionary landing for an Alitalia Boeing 777 airplane

Recife, Brazil - Due to mechanical hitches

An Alitalia Boeing 777 airplane, according to Empresa Brasileira de Infra-Estrutura Aeroportuária (Infraero), carried out a precautionary landing in the international airport of Guararapes, near Recife, Brazil. The airplane, 295 people on board, would be landed at 2:15 am (LT) on the route Rome-Buenos Aires for technical hitches still not specified, but Captain preferred the precautionary landing...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1094718
Rome, Italy, 09/25/2008 18:34
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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