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03/10/2008
Emergency Landing Made By Light Aircraft In Shannon
A light aircraft with five passengers has been forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon airport this morning (Friday).
The Citation plane, travelling from Gander Airport in Newfoundland to La Bourgeois in Paris, is understood to have suffered hydraulic problems while in flight.
All the passengers and crew escaped injury after the aircraft landed safely in Shannon. No disruption was caused to other flights at the airport.
The incident falls coincidentally within a fortnight of a bi-annual exercise testing the combined response of emergency services to an aviation disaster at the airport. The four-hour "Exercise Rineanna" centred on a simulated crash of a Boeing 777 jet, carrying 156 passengers and 12 crew.
(DW)
The Citation plane, travelling from Gander Airport in Newfoundland to La Bourgeois in Paris, is understood to have suffered hydraulic problems while in flight.
All the passengers and crew escaped injury after the aircraft landed safely in Shannon. No disruption was caused to other flights at the airport.
The incident falls coincidentally within a fortnight of a bi-annual exercise testing the combined response of emergency services to an aviation disaster at the airport. The four-hour "Exercise Rineanna" centred on a simulated crash of a Boeing 777 jet, carrying 156 passengers and 12 crew.
(DW)
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