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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-03-03Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] Two aircrafts made emergency landings at Athens International airportTwo aircrafts whose flights did not have a Greek destination made emergency landings at Eleftherios Venizelos International airport in Athens on Monday, within a period of three hours, when the one was faced with a technical problem and the other with a passenger's health problem.In the first case, a Boeing 747 aircraft of the jet.com company with 192 passengers on board, carrying out a flight from Manchester to Egypt, developed a technical problem, probably a decompression problem in the passengers cabin, and landed at Athens airport at 15:40, where all necessary precautions had been taken beforehand. In the second case, an aircraft of the Alitalia company on a flight from Rome to Cairo, landed at Athens airport at 19:12 when one of the passengers suffered a heart attack and the pilot decided that he had to receive medical attention immediately. [02] Athens Newspaper HeadlinesThe Tuesday edition of Athens' dailies at a glanceThe aftermath of the EU Extraordinary Summit and Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' upcoming meetings with party leaders this week aimed at consensus dominated the headlines on Tuesday in the Athens' newspapers. ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Greeks set aside the financial crisis for a while and enjoyed the carnival". APOGEVMATINI: "PM to political leaders: Urgent call". AVRIANI: "Banks and insurance giants are collapsing worldwide, dragging the social security Funds down with them". CHORA: "Raises in public sector salaries will be given in two installments". ELEFTHEROS: "Mr. Karamanlis, speak clearly - He rejects early elections just as he did in the summer of 2007, but he is exploiting the early elections speculation". ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "500,000 acres of state property for sale". ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "European leaders raise a wall to the eastern European countries' call for help". ESTIA: "Europe unshielded before the new wave of the crisis". ETHNOS: "Raid on salaries and pensions - Karamanlis sends message for austerity and new taxes". TA NEA: "Brussels ordered Karamanlis to impose harsh measures before the Easter holidays". VRADYNI: "Draft law revokes years of injustice for 110,000 employees in public sector". Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |