Saturday, March 21, 2009

At Melbourne airport the plane hit the tail on takeoff.

To Melbourne Airport was an emergency situation with the passenger aircraft of Emirates, which was supposed to fly to Dubai. As the AFP, referring to the Australian authorities, the Airbus A340 with 225 passengers on board at take-off hit the tail on the runway paving. After that, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing.
After the attack on the asphalt Airbus took off and circled over the airport 30-45 minutes, dropping fuel. Then the plane sat safely. According to the Associated Press, in the cockpit, there was haze.
None of those on board the A340 are not hurt. Passengers described the plane that they were very scared. According to one of the passengers, all the time before landing on the board maintained an unusual silence.
Commenting on the event, a representative of Melbourne airport explained that the plane went down too sharply on takeoff. Representatives of the airline Emirates (UAE), in turn, said that will investigate the incident. Also reports that all passengers affected Airbus were given a hotel and tickets for other flights.

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