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High-flying Chinese lanterns mistaken for N.L. plane crash

Reports of a plane crash in eastern Newfoundland that sparked an intensive search-and-rescue operation Tuesday turned out to be children playing with Chinese lanterns. ...full story at cbcnews

from cbcnews on Wed, Aug 20 2008

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