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2009/02/08

Airbus Lands safely at Kashgar airport


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Contact Photographer Matthew Lee - Contrails Aviation Photography

What: Qatar Airways QR821 Airbus A330-200 en route from Osaka to Doha
Where: Emergency landing at Kashgar airport in China’s Xinjiang region
When: 6:35 am Thursday
Who: 174 passengers and 20 crew
Why: The airbus plunged 9,000 meters in five minutes, experiencing a loss in cabin pressure but landed safely. All the passengers and their luggage left Kashi at around 9 p.m. Thursday on another Qatar Airways flight. The mechanical failure was repaired and the Airbus left the airport on Friday
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Why show an image of an A380 when the aircraft involved was a different model?

February 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM

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