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Fighter Escorts Primera Air to Rome


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Contact Photographer Sergio Domingos

What: Primera Air Boeing 737-700 en route from Zakinthos Greece to Dublin
Where: Rome Italy
When: Jul 10th 2009
Who: 153 passengers and 6 crew
Why: While en route, the Primera flight requested an emergency landing. It lowered altitude without declaring an emergency, which upset air traffic control. Fighter jets (Eurofighter) were deployed as an escort. The flight landed safely in Rome (after refusing Naples and burning off fuel.)

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    Another emergency on another MD-82. Two engines are always safer than one, and we’re all glad they made a safe diversion…

    Now…how old was the plane? Was this a leak that just developed, or a lapse of maintenance?

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