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® A snow blizzard in Vancouver, a

- fuel shortage and a medical emer-

gency. combined to force a DC-10

airplane @ make an emergency

landing at Viciotia Airport, Tues-
day.

Airport manager Laurie Brown

land at the airport at about 2:20
p.m. despite arriving in the middle
of a whiteout.

After an aborted landing at Van-
couver International Airport, the
airplane was diverted to Victoria
Airport where the snow storm had
yet to hit.

However, the Royal Dutch Air-
lines aircraft arrived at Victoria
Airport in the middle of the worst

of Tuesday’s blizzard, Brown said. ~

And soon after the landing, the
flight engineer was rushed by
ambulance to the Saanich Penin-
sula General Hospital, he said.

“He had problems with his
kidney stones and had to be rushed
to hospital,” Brown said.

“That certainly added to the
crew’s problems.”

said a KLM jetliner was forced to ~

| Aircraft skids to stop affer
redirected to Victoria in snow

An Australian vacationer, Steve
Rushforth, said people on board
were full of praise for the pilot,
who landed in near zero visibility.

“People broke into spontaneous
applause when we landed,” he
said.

A Canada Customs official said
only. two officers were on hand to
process the 144 passengers and be
crew members.

“We're used to handling only
about 20 or 30 peopié at a time
with flights from the States,” he
said.

“But this plane had Germans,
Italians, Dutch and French people
on board, along with Canadians.
We’re just not used to so many
different nationalities.”

However, baggage didn’t need to
be checked by Customs personnel
because the airport didn’t have the

right equipment to unload the

airplane’s cargo, he said.

After a night spent at the Hotel
Sidney, the passengers reboarded
the aircraft and took off for Van-
couver at 11:50 a.m., Wednesday.

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