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Polish tourists mistakenly land at NATO airbase, trigger alert
A planeload of Polish tourists got a scare Wednesday night when their Turkish pilot mistakenly landed at a NATO air base by mistake, triggering a terror alert. Officials say the pilot of the chartered aircraft ignored air traffic controllers who told her she was headed toward the wrong airport. She had initially flown over the main civilian airport at Poznan late Wednesday and begun an approach when she saw the unlit runway of the NATO airport about ten miles away and brought the plane down there. And they say men won't ask for directions? A spokesman for the NATO facility says the unexpected landing set off an anti-terror procedure, with troops scrambling to surround the aircraft. Police checked the crew and the passengers, and after about three hours allowed the plane to fly to the correct airport. Just long enough to drink everything you bought at the duty-free store... Posted by: Dar 2006-08-17 |
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