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Pictured: An Air India Airbus A320-231
Click to view full size photo at Airliners.net
Contact photographer Avinash – iPilot777What: Air India Airbus A320-200 en route from Muscat Oman to Kozhikode
Where: Muscat
When: May 20th 2010
Who: 132 passengers
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