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Angola Airlines Boeing Drops Metal Shards on Lisbon suburb


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What: TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 777 en route from Portela airport to Luanda Angola
Where: Over Lisbon
When: Dec 6 2010 12:30
Who: 125 aboard
Why: Around 11:45 GMT, a Taag Boeing lost parts over the Almada suburb of Lisbon, damaging a car and a building’s roof. The plane made an emergency landing at Portela after experiencing engine vibration in the right engine.

Stramded passengers have a replacement flight due at 10 am.

Taag bought the plane in 2007. TAAG’s Boeing aircraft are exempt from TAAG’s blacklist status. TAAG is on the UE blacklist of foreign airlines banned from flying to the continent due to noncompliance with international safety guidelines.

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