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Old 21st Sep 2011, 20:04
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Near-tragedy would happen in Paphos airport, when at 4.30 in the afternoon, Boeing 737, the company Thompson, with 192 passengers and 7-member crew, landed instead on the bus for the airport of Paphos, landed on runway taxiing, the famous taxi-way, which use the aircraft to reach the bus or to evacuate him.
The error was attributed to pilot the aircraft of foreign airline while it is fortunate that at that moment there was no aircraft taxiing on the runway.
At stake were the lives of 199 persons on board the aircraft as the runway taxiing lacks any infrastructure for landing. Not even marking.
Given the seriousness of the incident immediately began investigations by the pilot to admit his mistake. Indeed, according to information from the Sigma, when asked how he made such a tragic mistake, he replied: "I do not know what to say."

A spokesman for the airport, Adamos White, said verbatim that this is a trend that no one expected. This is a particularly serious incident and therefore the competent authorities will investigate thoroughly and very carefully
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