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What: Emirates Airlines Airbus A340-500 en route from Cape Town to Dubai
Where: Capetown
When: Jan 4 2012 1.55pm
Who: 243 passengers
Why: After takeoff, the gear did not retract and (as was observed) the gear doors remained open. We presume the pilots did a fly-by that was the source of the visual conformation of the issue at hand.
An hour and a half after takeoff, with emergency crews on standby, the pilots landed back in Capetown (3.20pm), and was towed.
Passengers were provided hotel accommodations. The replacement flight was scheduled for Jan 5, 2012.
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