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Exceptional cloudburst on Rome-Fiumicino airport. Refuelling and engine aircraft operations suspended for a quarter-hour

Rome, Italy - A task-force for about 150 people implemented

The refuelling and the starting operations of airplane engines, as security procedure, have been suspended from 3:19pm to 3:33pm, during more acute phase of the extraordinary downpour still ongoing at the Rome-Fiumicino airport. The landings continued regularly and safely, despite the particular adverse weather conditons. For that regarding the take-offs at present there are 15 per hour against the...

fra/pec - 1163957
Rome, Italy, 11/06/2014 18:32
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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