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Yemenia Jet Engine Explodes


Pictured: A Yemenia – Yemen Airways Boeing 737-8Q8
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Contact photographer Andre Oferta

What: Yemenia Boeing 737-800 en route from Sana’a to Cairo
Where: Sana’a International Airport
When: Dec 22m 2009
Who: not available
Why: About thirty minutes after taking off from Sana’a for Cairo, one of the jet’s engines exploded.

The plane returned to Sana’a, and made a safe landing. No one aboard was reported as being injured. Passengers waited almost 3 hours for a replacement flight.

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