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A handful of seconds avoids collision between airplanes at Brussels Airport

Zaventem, Belgium - Two passenger-aircraft involved: one in taking-off and one in landing on the same runway

The Brussels' authorities opened an inquiry on a fact happened last October 5 at the Brussels-Zaventem airport and reported only in these hours by the local edition of "Echo". A plane served by Air Dolomiti (Lufthansa Group) in taking off to Munich for a just barely has not entered into collision with another arliner -of the Irish Aer Lingus- that in the contrary route was ready to land coming from...

fra/pec - 1178117
Rome, Italy, 10/13/2016 17:27
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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