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Wed 04 Apr 2009Plane in emergency Shannon landing
An Alitalia aircraft carrying some 179 passengers and crew was forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon airport this evening after the pilot suffered a suspected heart attack.
The Boeing 767 plane, which was travelling from Milan to JFK Airport in New York, transmitted a distress call to Shannon Air Traffic Control earlier this afternoon when it was west of the airport over the North Atlantic.
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