What: Ethiopian airplane Boeing 737-800 Flight 407 en route from Addis Ababa to Beirut
Where: Beirut International Airport
When: June 17 2010
Who: 78 passengers
Why: The flight returned to the airport because of an “undisclosed technical problem.” Crew noticed a door was rattling and had been closed improperly. (It is unclear if that was the technical problem.) The flight made a safe landing. The same plane was cleared for takeoff six hours later.
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