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Scorpion aboard an airplane prickles a passenger

Lagos, Nigeria - A private airline aircraft is landed at Lagos airport where the man has been undergone the medical care

A Nigerian passenger would have been prickled by a scorpion, while he was on board a plane, a DC-9 of a private airline in flight from Enugu to Lagos. The arthropod would have been slipped into the pants of the hapless traveller: the aircraft went haywire and landed at Lagos airport (Nigeria). An African air station responsible has reported it: the man has been immediately transported to the airport...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 104136
Rome, Italy, 09/28/2004 15:45
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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