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NordWind aircraft aborts takeoff with about 180 on board

At the Moscow-Sheremetyevo airport: passengers and crew evacuated; wounded

It happened at 00:45 this morning on July 19, when the commander of a B-737 aircraft of the NordWind Airline company bound for Yerevan had to interrupt the take-off run on the runway of the Moscow-Sheremetyevo airport, when the cabin was invaded by an acrid smell of burning. Activated as usual the emergency measures, the 173 passengers and six crewmembers were evacuated through the slides. It is in...

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Moscow, Russia, 07/19/2019 15:07
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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