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Emergency Landing Temporarily Shuts Down Nairobi Airport

01 October 2005

Workers repain the landing gear of an Air Atlanta cargo plane carrying 120 metric tons (132 tons) of flowers and fruits
Workers repain the landing gear of an Air Atlanta cargo plane carrying 120 metric tons (132 tons) of flowers and fruits
Flights to and from Kenya's main international airport were temporarily stopped Saturday after a cargo plane made an emergency landing and remained stranded on one of the runways.

Officials at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport said that airport employees planned to remove the plane and tow it to a nearby hangar. Authorities reported no injuries in the incident.

A report that airport authorities had removed the plane and allowed flights to resume could not be immediately confirmed.

Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters.

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