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Brawl forces evacuation of plane at Cairo airport as PILOT and cabin crew member involved in violent fist fight

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A passenger plane was evacuated and grounded for six hours after its pilot and a cabin crew member brawled just before the aircraft was scheduled to take off.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Saudi Arabian Airlines flight was preparing to depart Cairo’s international airport for Medina, Saudi Arabia when an argument between the captain and steward turned violent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than 150 passengers were removed from the plane without injury and taken to a transit hall while officials separated the combatants. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brawl: A Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot and steward got into a fight aboard a plane at Cairo International Airport</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Once security personnel broke up the fist fight, the steward was treated at the airport for hand injuries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The pilot suffered an eye injury and was transported to hospital, Stuff.co.nz reported. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">‘The fight took place as the plane was about to take off,’ said Col Mutaz Youssef, duty head of the airport police.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 153 passengers were put back on the plane, which departed about six hours behind schedule.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is not known what triggered the fight between the pilot and steward. </span></div>
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Brawl forces evacuation of plane at Cairo airport as PILOT and cabin crew member involved in violent fist fight

Passenger plane bound for Saudi Arabia was grounded for six hours More than 150 passengers were removed from the plane without injury T...

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UK airport closed after aircraft landing incident

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport is closed after an aircraft had a problem with its undercarriage while landing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The LinksAir plane, which had two crew members and one passenger on board, was flying to the airport in South Yorkshire from Belfast City Airport.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The passenger was taken to hospital for checks after the incident at 19:30 BST, the airport said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It added that the Jetstream 31 aircraft remained near the runway and could not be moved until investigators arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It said the runway might remain closed until Saturday lunchtime.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Steve Gill, the airport managing director, told the Doncaster Free Press: “Our apologies go to any passengers expecting to fly into or out of Doncaster Sheffield Airport tonight. Our team will work to ensure the airport reopens as soon as possible.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bobby Fett, 39, from Newcastle upon Tyne, was at the airport on board a plane due to depart for Romania at the time of the Belfast flight’s arrival.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He and fellow passengers were told by the pilot there was a “problem on the runway”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The crash happened as I was sat on the plane about to depart,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I was sat at the rear on my aircraft and was informed by the pilot that there was a problem on the runway.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“When I looked out I saw what looked to be a small aircraft with its right wing down on the floor. It was obvious it had an undercarriage problem by the way it was sat.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Four inbound scheduled flights and three outbound services were affected on Friday evening, the airport said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A further three outbound flights are expected to be diverted on Saturday morning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At 22:00, there were about 300 people in the airport terminal awaiting information, the airport added.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All passengers are advised to contact their airlines.</span></div>
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UK airport closed after aircraft landing incident

Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport is closed after an aircraft had a problem with its undercarriage while landing. The LinksAir plane, whi...

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World's Biggest Aircraft

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<span lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first prize goes fairly to Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya which is acknowledged to be the world’s largest plane up to date. The plane made its first flight in 1988, on December 21. This really huge thing was built exceptionally for military purposes, in particular for carrying the Buran orbiter (Russian Space Shuttle). The developers of An-225 aircraft used a base of An-124 and increased sufficiently its engine capacity. 6 engines are used in the An-225 instead of 4 in An-124 as well as twin nail. The aircraft is the heaviest up to date: its maximum takeover weight is more than 640 tons. Today there is only one An-225 in service.</span></div>
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Brazilian presidential candidate among those killed in plane crash

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was among those killed Wednesday morning in the crash of a small plane in Santos, Brazil, the country's state news outlet Agencia Brasil reported.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The exact number of people killed in the crash wasn't immediately known, but there were no survivors, Agencia Brasil reported, citing officials from Campos' Brazilian Socialist Party.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Campos, 49, was most recently the governor of Pernambuco state, and was a federal lawmaker from 1998 to 2003.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Eduardo Campos, presidential candidate and former governor of the state of Pernambuco, sits for a photograph after an interview in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday, April, 17, 2014." border="0" class="box-image" height="169" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140813123650-eduardo-campos-restricted-story-body.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eduardo Campos, presidential candidate and former governor of the state of Pernambuco, sits for a photograph after an interview in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday, April, 17, 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The political figure, who was running in his first presidential election, was among the serious contenders, steady in third place in the polls at about 8%, according to pollster Datafolha. The two leading candidates are incumbent President Dilma Rousseff and center-right candidate Aecio Neves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eight other candidates are polling at 3% or lower.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The plane was a Cessna 560XL that had departed from Santos Dumont airport in Rio de Janeiro en route to Guaraja airport in Sao Paulo state, Agencia Brasil reported.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The plane's maintenance and inspection records were up to date, the state outlet reported.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As the plane prepared to land it swerved because of bad weather, and immediately the air traffic control tower lost contact with the plane, Agencia Brasil reported.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One witness, a pilot trainee, told CNN he heard a loud noise and saw the plane flying really low.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was pitched down at 70 degrees, and "hit the ground like a rock," Matheus Giovannini said, adding that it appeared to have hit a house, too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Campos was married, and had five children.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Courtesy: CNN</span></div>
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