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jakeXT

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1. Ukrainian military plane 'hit by gunfire'

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2014, 01:04 PM

Apr 2014

A Ukrainian military surveillance plane was hit and damaged by small arms fire as it was on a reconnaissance flight over the rebel-held eastern town of Slavyansk, the defence ministry said on Tuesday

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The plane, a propellor-driven Antonov An-30, safely made an emergency landing, a ministry spokesman told AFP. None of its crew members was hurt.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10780790/Ukrainian-military-plane-hit-by-gunfire.html

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