Substitute plane with U.S. soldiers leaves Prague

Letadlo ČSA startuje z letiště v Praze-Ruzyni. Letiště Ruzyně - ilustrační foto.

vydáno: 27.11.2009, 07:46 | aktualizace: 27.11.2009 07:51

Náhradní letadlo s americkými vojáky odletělo z Ruzyně

Prague - The substitute plane taking home the U.S. soldiers who had an emergency landing at Prague-Ruzyne airport in the night of Thursday left Prague shortly before 02:00 today, airport spokeswoman Eva Krejci told CTK.

The original plane carrying over 200 U.S. troops was heading from Iraq back home to the United States when the captain asked for unplanned landing on suspicion of smoke in the cockpit, the server iDnes.cz reported.

John Vance, spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Prague, told CTK on Thursday it was a commercial flight hired for the U.S. soldiers.

"Twenty minutes after midnight the aircraft safely landed on the Prague airport's runway. The soldiers were accommodated in a nearby hotel," iDnes.cz wrote.

The Prague airport staff, including firefighters and an ambulance, went on alert over the emergency landing.

A similar situation occurred in Prague in late October when a plane of the Czech carrier CSA registered a defect of its engine shortly after take-off and had to return to the Ruzyne airport.

Five days ago, the Prague airport was not receiving planes for more than five hours due to a fire that flared up at the control tower, forcing the staff out.

Autor: ČTK
www.ctk.cz

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