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Lampedusa (2): airlift has started

Lampedusa, Italy - Clandestines are en route to Libya by an Air Adriatic flight

A hundred of non-EU immigrants hosted at Lampedusa welcome centre, escorted by Italian Policemen left around 1:30pm on board a MD-82 airplane belonging to Air Adriatic airline directed to Tripoli (Libya). It seems that they intended to treat flight plan as confidential until takeoff, while agents have been properly sent from Rome by a charter plane.

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 116590
Rome, Italy, 03/17/2005 17:50
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