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Virgin Atlantic plane landed in emergency due to a family row

Gander, Canada - Man who committed the assault has been condemned to pay a 24.000 dollar fine

Yesterday Roy Anthony Heaps, 44, of British nationality, was condemned to pay a fine of almost 24,000 dollars for having pushed, last Friday, the pilot of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747/400 airplane flying from Orlando, USA, to Manchester, England, to make an emergency landing in Gander, Canada. It seems that Heaps had drunk a bottle of vodka and two beers to overcome his fear of flying, and while...

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Rome, Italy, 10/27/2010 15:22
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