Plane lands in Beirut despite blockade
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A Qatar Airways plane landed at Beirut airport on Monday carrying 142 passengers aboard, despite Israel's blockade on Lebanon.
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LONDON - A bomb threat that mentioned Iraq forced a New York-bound Greek airliner to make an emergency landing Sunday at London's Stansted Airport escorted by military jets, authorities said.    An airport spokeswoman said the Olympic Airlines plane, with 301 passengers and crew on board, landed in "full emergency" status and was safely evacuated...
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Italian troops, trucks and armored personnel carriers landed Sunday in Lebanon as the arrival of the first large contingent of international peacekeepers entered its second day after being delayed by rough seas.
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&quot;Cypriot justice minister granted permission for the plane to land in Larnaca and mobilised bomb squads, bomb detectors and local civil aviation officials...&quot;. (BBC NEWS) - Israeli jet fighters have prevented
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Heavy fighting outside Baghdad International Airport prevented two flights for Jordan's national carrier from landing Monday, the airline spokesman said.
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ISLAMABAD: A major air disaster was averted Wednesday when two passenger aircrafts narrowly averted a mid air collision, some 50 KM from Rahim Yar Khan, said sources.
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Israel turned away a German airliner due to a bomb threat on Tuesday in the latest such scare in Europe, but the plane landed safely in Cyprus and the airline was convinced it was a hoax.
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A French military jet believed to be carrying the Palestinian leader landed today at an airfield outside Paris, witnesses said.
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A Lufthansa passenger plane landed safely in Israel, escorted by Israeli warplanes tonight, hours after it had been diverted to Cyprus following a bomb threat, airport officials said.
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A Iranian passenger plane made an emergency landing at an airport in Tehran on Tuesday but aviation officials denied an initial report that said it had done so after an engine caught fire.
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A British Airways (BA) plane en route from Berlin to London made an emergency landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after a bomb threat was received.
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Even before the killing of a key Christian politician, Beirut was primed for trouble. Now, it may be hard to avoid confrontation
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A plane operated by a budget airline overshot the runway as it landed in the central Philippines on Wednesday, but no one was hurt, officials said.
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Workers scrambled to ready ports and the Beirut airport for a renewed flow of passengers and cargo.
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British Mediterranean Airways resumed commercial passenger flights to Beirut on Wednesday, becoming the first Western carrier to break Israel's air blockade of Lebanon.
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Two military transport planes said to be carrying US military aid for the Lebanese army reportedly arrive in Beirut.
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Israeli warplanes struck the runways of Beirut's international airport in the Lebanese capital's Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, forcing the closure of the facility, police and airport officials said.