09-10-2010, 11:36
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Re: Plane Spotters Corner
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Originally Posted by Hugh
BBC
A UPS 747 has gone down just outside Dubai Airport - we were FaceBooked about it by some friends of ours who live in the Emirate Airways residences (the planes fly over their houses after take off), and saw it go down.
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Possibly caused by ignition of lithium laptop batteries it was carrying:
http://www.whas11.com/news/FAA-repor...104603214.html
http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releas...m?newsId=11960
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