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Food Poisoning In the Skies


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Contact photographer Steven Shi

What: Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 en route from Newark to Munich
Where: Keflavik International Airport
When: October 20, 2010 6: 40 am
Who: 5 or 6 passengers
Why: The flight landed due to passengers showing symptoms of food poisoning. They made a safe landing at Keflavik and the ill passengers were taken by ambulance to the hospital.

An investigation of the restaurants where the passengers ate, as well as the food they consumed on the plane is underway.

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