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What: Air China Airbus 340-300 en route from Milan Italy to Beijing China
Where: Moscow
When: Tuesday 9.07pm
Who: 155 passengers 18 crew
Why: When one of the Airbus’s 4 engines failed, the crew requested an immediate emergency landing in Russia.

85 passengers were booked to continue to Beijing on Aeroflot and others were being booked elsewhere, later.

George’s Point of View

Slow boat to china?
How about taking a broken airbus to China?
Let’s not.

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