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Emergency landing for plane by Alitalia

Palermo, Italy - About 150 passengers on board

On Saturday a plane of Alitalia took off from Palermo and direct to Rome-Fiumicino had a failure just after takeoff. In fact, after 10 minutes of flight has had to go back for make an emergency landing. After that the Captain of the aircraft, on which there were about 150 passengers, has asked to the control tower to land in priority to all other flights, at the airport "Falcone-Borsellino" in Palermo...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1127779
Rome, Italy, 04/04/2011 13:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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