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Qantas plane makes emergency landing
Qantas plane makes emergency landing
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 | AY
A Sydney-Bound plane had to make an emergency landing at the Dumdum Airport at 12:52 pm today after the crew detected smoke in its tail end. The plane, which took off from London, was on its way to Singapore, its next stop. The Boeing Jumbo 747-400 belonged to the Australian airlines company, Qantas, was carrying 389 passengers on board. All the passengers were reported to be safe. After landing, engineers of British Airways carried out the necessary repairs. The engineers said the smoke was due to technical faults. The ground support was handled by Indian Airlines. The repairs were completed by 4.45 pm, and the Qantas flight took off at 5.01 pm.
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