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Air Canada Jumbo in emergency landing in Iceland

Reykjavic, Iceland - Smoke was filling passenger cabin

Fear yesterday over the Atlantic Ocean when an Air Canada B-747/400 has been forced to an emergency landing in Iceland after that dense smoke was invading the cabin. Flight 783 took off from Frankfurt some hours earlier and was directed to Toronto with 269 passengers and a crew of 13 persons on board: nobody would be hurted but for 71 minutes, the time to reach Iceland, there have been moments of...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 51684
Rome, Italy, 08/19/2003 09:40
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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