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Technical issues for Italian Senate president's aircraft in Moscow

Moscow, Russia - The pilot had to land back at the departure airport

The Airbus A-319 that should have carried the Italian Senate's president, Renato Schifani, back to Rome, after his visit in Moscow, was forced this afternoon to land back at Vnukovo military airport, from where it took off about 20 minutes earlier. Cause of the problem was a lack of oil in one of the airplane's hydraulic circuits. Schifani itself issued the news, and jocking with the present journalists...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1105235
Rome, Italy, 05/29/2009 18:07
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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