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Lampedusa: AMI C-130 aircraft to airlift clandestines

Lampedusa, Italy - The flights are bound for the welcome centre of Crotone

Yesterday an air-bridge to Calabria Region (South-Italy) has started in order to clear the Lampedusa’s welcome centre: 176 immigrants have been transferred by Italian Air Force Hercules C-130. Today other two flights are scheduled and will be operate always by AMI C-130 airplanes. Meanwhile on the Sicily island the Libyan inspectors have landed and carried out the first verifications over nationality o...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 116418
Rome, Italy, 03/16/2005 14:04
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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