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Sunday, August 07, 2005

ATR-72 in Sicily.

An ATR-72 operated by Tuninter airlines carrying 39 people from Italy to Tunisia crash landed in the Mediterranean Sea.
20 survivors. 19 dead.
Engine trouble. The pilot Chafik Garbi who survived, reportedly told Italian aviation authorities after the crash, that the motors lost power forcing him to make an emergency landing at sea.
The ATR-72 is a twin-propeller plane which was built in France and was first flown commerically in 1988.

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