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Alitalia's airplane redirects on London-Heathrow for medical emergency on board

Rome, Italy - The aircraft took off from Rome was bound for Chicago

According to that underlined by "Airlive.net", that reported globally the plans of all aircraft in flight, an Alitalia's airplane this morning, flight AZ628 has abandoned the scheduled route from Rome to Chicago to redirect and land on the London-Heathrow airport. According to the first indiscretions, then not confirmed yet by the airline, the Captain would have adopted the measure due to the sudden...

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Rome, Italy, 09/30/2016 15:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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