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Gendarmerie training punctures Air Austral B773 at Reunion on Mar 8th 2010
By Simon Hradecky, created Tuesday, last updated Tuesday, Mar 9th 2010 08:33Z
An Air Austral Boeing 777-300 registration F-ONOU parked at Saint Denis' Gillot Airport (Reunion) was being used for a training exercise by Reunion's Overseas Gendarmerie simulating hijackers had taken hostages aboard the aircraft. The police forces attempting to free the hostages brought stairs to the right hand front door, got up the stairs and opened the door for a surprise attack. But one of the policemen had live bullets instead of blank cartridges in his gun when he stormed the aircraft, and thus shot through the window of the left hand front entrance with the bullet going through all panes of the window. Nobody was injured.
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