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Emergency practise provokes panic in Nairobi

Nairobi, Kenya - False alarm about an air incident

On last Tuesday there was the panic in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, when aviation authorities gave the news that an aircraft coming form Democratic Republic of Congo, with 80 people on board, crashed in the city airport. Some time later however airport authority said it was a false alarm, namely of an emergency practise. Formerly several members of the same authority said that the plane was crashed a...

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Rome, Italy, 04/06/2006 15:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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