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Due to a misunderstanding begins emergency for SLA A-340 airplane

Male, Maldive - A colloquial phrase mistaken for a bomb-threat

Perhaps the poor knowledge of the language, rather than an exaggerated state of alert, was at the base of the misunderstanding that yesterday caused the emergency status for an A-340 aircraft of Sri Lankan Airlines (SLA), traveling from Colombo to London, once landed making a technical stopover in Male, Maldives. The passenger Paul Clement, the passenger, would have said to a flight attendant a...

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Rome, Italy, 02/15/2011 18:11
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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