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What: Boeing 787 Dreamliner test flight
Where: Laredo, Texas
When: Nov 9, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Who: 42 person crew on board
Why: Boeing is performing flight tests with Rolls-Royce and with General Electric engines.
During the test flight, the pilots made an emergency landing. This was sue to smoke in the cabin attributed to electrical problems in the aft electronics bay; and this disabled the primary flight displays in the cockpit.
The crew disembarked via slides on to the runway with one injury.
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Flybondi flight FO-5101 made an emergency landing at El Palomar Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 17th.
Fedex Federal Express flight FX-1590 made an emergency landing in Rochester, Minnesota, on January 10th.
