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Buenos Aires: airport damaged by an hailstorm

Buenos Aires, Argentina - A storm of an intensity that hasn't been registered for years

An exceptional bad-weather wave has happened Wednesday evening in Argentina, provoking damages to civil buildings and to one of the two international airports of Buenos Aires. The Argentinean air terminal has been invested -as the rest of the city- by wind gusts mixed with hail grapes big as golf balls, some of 30 grams weighted. For about 20-25 minutes the Argentinean capital has been held on trap...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 145924
Rome, Italy, 07/28/2006 15:27
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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