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Air Canada Aborts Flight in Vancouver


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Contact photographer Manuel Wenger

What: Air Canada Boeing 767-300 en route from Vancouver to Shanghai
Where: Vancouver International Airport
When: August 21, 2010
Who: 166 passengers and 9 crew
Why: Twenty minutes after leaving, the pilot returned to Vancouver after detecting a whistling sound from a cockpit window. The flight entered a holding pattern, then made a safe landing.

Passengers were provided an alternative plane while this plane was scheduled for maintenance.

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