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GB: a fourth plane could have been contaminated by a radioactive substance

London , United Kingdom - The aircraft landed in London coming from Moscow

While the British authorities keep saying the risk for public health is very low, a fourth plane could have been contaminated by a radioactive substance. At the moment there are not confirmations of the theory that consider the polonium 210, that killed the former Russian Kgb spy Alexander Litvinenko, responsible for the planes' contamination, but the alert is growing in Great Britain. The aircraft...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 70594
Rome, Italy, 11/30/2006 16:57
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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