A Jumbo de Air France caused panic in the AILA thats was the first time that the pilot landed in the Dominican airport and he was put to land in opposite sense.
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The Jumbo has capacity for almost 450 passengers.
AILA. A Boeing 747 of Air France with 439 passengers on board, whom
flight 3698 between Paris and Santo Domingo made, was on the verge of
undergoing a mishap when the pilot initiated the landing in an
opposite direction of the runway.
The airship had to rectify and to rise when it was on the verge of
touching ground, when receiving a fast warning of one of the air
controllers.
The airship happened closely together of the building of the terminal
of the AILA, had to make a left turn stops after giving two returns,
before taking the track and landing again without difficulties.
Aeronautical technicians of the AILA attributed the error to that it
was the first time that the pilot landed in this terminal.
They explained, also, that if the pilot does not obey the
recommendation of the air controller, Jumbo 747 had left the track.
Between the passengers there were several Dominican ones been in
Europe, who came to spend Christmases with their families. Several of
these Creoles explained that the flight was planned to arrive at the 6
p.m. of Sunday, presented/displayed problems in Paris, and all the
passengers were transferred to a hotel. After 15 hours of delay they
could fly to Santo Domingo: "After to have passed so many vicissitudes
in France and already when we came arriving at the country he
presents/displays this situation that put the end nerves", Rodriguez,
native of Azua said to Rose and that returned to the country after two years in Paris.
Reported on 17 December 2002 at
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Air France caused panic in AILA
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