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Old 8th Feb 2006, 10:14
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UPS smoke/fire landing at PHL

last night, a UPS dc-8-70 performed an emr landing at PHilly after indication of smoke. However after landing, heat and smoke intensified and may burned through the aft fuselage. Very likely to be a write off. Source of the smoke is yet unidentified.
S:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/08/ups.plane.fire/
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ajk10202080928

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