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Emergency Landing on Field - No, not me!

Glad that I haven't been travelling today: the pilot of an Austrian Airlines flight from Vienna to Munich had to bring the Fokker 70 down in an emergency landing on a snow-covered field. (Only three injured. Great pilot, by the way!)

Personal sidenote: According to the photos, the plane has been called "Wiener Neustadt" [1]. I've been sitting in this plane (not just the type, but the very airplane involved!) several times already - I guess the last time was just three weeks ago.

[1] Austrian Airlines name their planes after cities in Austria. "Wiener Neustadt", "Innsbruck", and so on.

posted on Monday, January 05, 2004 1:32 PM

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