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Brawl on board: BA plane makes priority landing

London, United Kingdom - A group of Moscow's football fans got drunk and brawled

Yesterday a British Airways flight coming from Moscow had to make a priority landing in London because of a brawl between some fans of the Moscow CSKA football team, who was flying to London to attend to the match between their team and the London's Arsenal, for the European Champions League. According to what reported by some witnesses some fans of the Moscow team drank too much and brawled. A BA...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 68131
Rome, Italy, 10/31/2006 16:57
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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