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Wikileaks: Castro felt ill in an airplane with no doctor on board

Havana, Cuba - The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing

As revealed yesterday by the web-site Wikileaks, Cuban authorities would have hidden for four years, considering it as a State secret, that the worsening state of health of Fidel Castro followed an intestinal hemorrhage suffered from the "Lider maximo" on a flight between Holguin and Havana. Since there was no doctor on the plane, the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing. According to...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1123925
Rome, Italy, 12/17/2010 13:33
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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