BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

21/08/2009

Incident: Alitalia A321 near Minsk on Aug 20th 2009, loss of cabin pressure

By Simon Hradecky, created Friday, Aug 21st 2009 16:06Z, last updated Friday, Aug 21st 2009 16:09Z

An Alitalia Airbus A321-100, registration I-BIXO performing ferry flight AZ-8801 from Moscow Sheremetyevo (Russia) to Rome Fiumicino (Italy) with 6 crew, was enroute near Minsk (Belarus), when the crew had to initiate an emergency descent due to the loss of cabin pressure. The airplane landed safely at the National Airport of Minsk around 16:30 local (13:30Z).

The crew continued the ferry flight unpressurized later the day.

The airplane had last performed flight AZ-548 from Rome to Moscow on Aug 18th, the return flight AZ-549 was cancelled that day.

Source:

http://avherald.com/h?article=41e90ce4&opt=0

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