Spanish Airplane Makes Emergency Landing in Lisbon

World | November 19, 2004, Friday // 00:00

A Spanish airliner made an emergency landing at Lisbon international airport in the early hours of Friday after the cabin filled with smoke, forcing the airport to close for four hours, an airport official said. The Iberia aircraft, an Airbus A340, was flying from Madrid to Mexico, and nine people were injured, one of them seriously, while going down an evacuation slide, a spokesman for airport management company announced.

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