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Aircraft and safety. Fuel pump catches fire at Boston airport (VIDEO)

Boston, USA - Many flights diverted to other hubs

One of the twelve underground fuel pumps at Boston's "Logan" Airport caught fire in the afternoon of Tuesday 17 September 2013 forcing Massport, the operator of the Massachusetts hub, to divert some arriving flights and causing many delays. The fire, in which no one was injured, started at about 5:00 pm yesterday (9:00 pm GMT/UTC), and as a precautionary measure the whole underground refuelling...

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Rome, Italy, 09/18/2013 11:17
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