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Japan: Three were injured due to turbulence on an American direct flight to Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan - In a raging tropical storm

The Minister of transport in Japan announced that three passengers on an American Airlines plane, a B-777/2000 with 228 people aboard, took off yesterday from Dallas and flying towards Tokyo, were injured in a violent Turbulence caused by the arrival of a typhoon. The aircraft was hit by gusts of wind and rain when it was about seventy miles south-east of Tokyo- Narita. The Japanese meteorological...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1110590
Rome, Italy, 10/27/2009 17:06
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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