When You Absolutely, Positively, Lose A Piece Of Your
Wing...
It's gotta be REALLY disconcerting to land, do a post-flight
inspection, look out at one's wing and see a five foot piece AWOL.
But -- all's well that lands well...
Contradicts Earlier Reports Of As Many As 50 Survivors
The Nigerian government has released a statement retracting
earlier reports of survivors of the Saturday night accident
involving a Bellview Airlines B737-200 that went down after takeoff
in an electrical storm. Officials now state all 117 passengers,
including one American, onboard the doomed airliner died.
Embraer has delivered its 100th E-Jet, an EMBRAER 175
belonging to Air Canada, which has already placed nine jets of this
model in scheduled passenger service.
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