{"id":13098,"date":"2010-08-25T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=13098"},"modified":"2010-08-25T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T17:00:18","slug":"london-bound-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-mauritania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=13098","title":{"rendered":"London-bound plane makes emergency landing in Mauritania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mauritania\u00a0 \u2013 A British Midland passenger plane en-route  to London was forced to land at Nouakchott International Airport in  Mauritania on Tuesday, the airline said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British Midland Airways (BMI) flight BD968 departed Freetown en-route to London Heathrow on Tuesday and was  forced to land in Mauritania \u201cin accordance with aircraft manufacturer\u2019s  guidelines,\u201d the airline stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, BMI did not say why the Boeing 757-200 was forced to land, but did say that press reports of a fire in the engine were not accurate. \u201cThe aircraft  landed as normal and passengers and crew disembarked safely,\u201d a  spokesperson said. \u201cAn alternative BMI flight was scheduled to transport the passengers to London.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritania\u00a0 \u2013 A British Midland passenger plane en-route to London was forced to land at Nouakchott International Airport in Mauritania on Tuesday, the airline said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}