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What: Easyjet Airbus A320-200 en route from Heraklion (Greece) to London Gatwick,EN (UK)
Where: Athens International Airport
When: Apr 14th 2009 15.02 local time
Who: 137 passengers and 7 crew
Why: Pressurization. After observing problems with pressurization, the crew burned off ten minutes worth of fuel and landed on runway 21R. The problem turned out to be in the air conditioning. Easyjet’s press release terms this not an emergency but “merely a precautionary technical diversion.”
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