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National › Repair error led to ANA plane's 2007 nose-landing

A repair error by Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace led to the March 2007 nose-landing of an All Nippon Airways passenger plane at Kochi airport,… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Wed, May 28 2008

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