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USA: evacuate the aircraft carriers to Norfolk for the incoming hurricane

Unlikely even for air transport

The hurricane "Florence" has reached category 4 - on a maximum scale of 5- and is close to reaching the east coast of the United States, where about a million people have already been evacuated and many disruptions are expected in the transport sector air and rail from the next days. The problems will not be only in the civil sphere, because yesterday the US navy ordered its ships moored in the port...

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Norfolk, USA, 09/11/2018 13:01
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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