Prince Haakon survives fatal aviation accident

Crown Prince of Norway Prince Haakon and Princess Mette Marit his wife survived a certain death along with 135 passengers when the engine of plane they were traveling in exploded shortly after take-off from the international airport of Copenhagen in Denmark. Radio London, said that the pilot managed to emergency land in the airport, where all the passengers were helped out through the sledges on the plane sides while smoke filled the passenger compartment and raised from the doors of the plane. Witnesses said that a big explosion was heard from the right hand engine in the plane, a McDonnell Douglas 82 aircraft, and then the aircraft shook violently and tilted to one side in the air, but the pilot managed to control it and return it to the airport. (QNA) A A A/AK