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Lion Air incident (3): confirmed the presence of an Italian on the plane

New details regarding the ten minutes of flight emerge

It is confirmed that among the 189 people of the plane Boeing B-737 MAX 8 airplane of Lion Air crashed this morning there was an Italian. The Indonesian site "Kamparan" has in fact published the list of passengers who were on board the aircraft taken off from Jakarta, including figure Andrea Manfredi, 26, of Massa (Tuscany) with a past as a cyclist. The news was then confirmed also by the airline and...

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Jakarta, Indonesia, 10/29/2018 13:46
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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