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2008/07/30

Vancouver Emergency Landing after Fuselage Damage




What: Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd <0293.HK> Boeing 747 from NY to Hong Kong via Vancouver
Where: Vancouver
When: 3:36 am (1026 GMT)
Who: 363 passengers and 17 crew members.
Why: Suffered mid-air damage while descending for a landing at Vancouver. One of the air conditioning access panels had detached from the plane and there was also some minor damage to other parts of the fuselage. Officials were trying to determine what happened to the plane at 20,000
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