Syrians force jet to land
NZPA-Reuter Damascus
Syrian fighter planes forced an Air France Boeing 747 to land at Damascus Airport yesterday because it was on an unauthorised flight path, the official Syrian news agency, Sana, reported. But it said the plane was later allowed to resume its journey after the pilot apologised for his mistake.
Sources at Damascus Airport said the - plane had taken off to continue its flight from Paris to Karachi and other Far East destinations. “We still don’t know the details of what restricted space he went over, whether it was civilian or military and what caused the error,” an Air France spokesman said in Paris. French radio and television reports that the French film star, Alain Delon, was aboard the plane on his way to a film festival in Taiwan could not be confirmed by the spokesman. More than 300 passengers were said to be aboard.
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