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Tue 06 Jun 2009Plane in near-miss with lawnmower
An aircraft with more than 200 people on board was involved in a serious incident at Dublin Airport when its wing passed over a tractor lawnmower moving along the runway, with the driver oblivious to the landing jet.
The crew of the Canadian-registered Boeing 757-200, a Thomson Airways flight from the Sharm-el-Sheikh resort in Egypt spotted the lawnmower as the plane landed on May 29th last.
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