Egyptian Airline Banned After ‘Abnormal’ Flight
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France has banned Egyptian airline Luxor Air from flying into the country after one of its planes took a “completely abnormal” flight path at low altitude over a French city, said Michel Wachenheim, director-general of the Civil Aviation Authority.
Luxor Air’s flying rights were suspended amid an investigation into a March 21 flight from Egypt to Nantes, in western France, in which Luxor’s MD-83 plane made a 1.2-mile deviation from its flight path as it came in for landing and flew over Nantes at 660 feet. No one was hurt.
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