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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Kuwaiti plane makes emergency landing in Iran

A Kuwaiti airplane has made an emergency landing at Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) in the Iranian capital due to technical problems.

According to Iran's Aviation Organization, flight number 512 had to make the emergency landing 15 minutes after it took office on Tuesday.

“The Airbus 320 aircraft left the airport at 7:19 p.m. (15:49 GMT) and minutes later the pilot informed the control tower about a technical problem,” Iran's Aviation Organization spokesman, Reza Jafarzadeh, told Mehr news agency on Tuesday.

“Following the pilot's emergency landing request, the plane landed safely at Imam Khomeini airport at 7:36,” he added.

“The Kuwaiti plane took off again at 11:23 p.m. after having fixed the technical problem,” he concluded.

Imam Khomeini International Airport is located about 30 kilometers south of the Iranian capital, Tehran.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109223§ionid=3510212.

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