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Emergency landing at Portland

Portland, USA - Because of the opening of a slide

An United Airlines plane, which took off from Portland and headed to Denver, made an emergency landing yesterday after the pilot saw the spy signalling the opening of one of the slides and decided to come back and land in Portland. 182 passengers and seven crew members were on board. There were no injured people. The slide rolling out was the one at an emergency exit along the wings. The emergency...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 141136
Rome, Italy, 05/18/2006 17:31
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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