Plane forced to land after striking bird
None injured when Arkia flight makes emergency landing in Uvda airfield
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAn Arkia Israel Airlines passenger plane was forced to perform an emergency landing at a Negev airstrip on Sunday after hitting a bird.
The plane, which was conducting a charter flight for the Defense Ministry, made a safe landing at the Uvda airfield in the Negev Desert after a “technical problem,” the pilots told Ynet.
Air force crews were prepared with ambulances and firefighting crews at the landing strip, but these proved unnecessary. Nobody was hurt in the incident.
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