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Adventurous travel for the marines directed in Kuwait

Washington, USA - Two emergency landings for the charter that transported them

For 250 Marines who have traveled with an United Airlines charter directed to Kuwait, by Frankfurt and taken off from Riverside base in California, the travel has been turned in an incubus. Everything went smoothly until the pause for the refueling at Frankfurt, but once taken off from the German city the b747 has been forced to come back in emergency for an explosion of two pneumatics of the undercarriage....

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 38925
Rome, Italy, 01/20/2003 16:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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