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Ethiopian cargo plane catches fire in China

An Ethiopian Airlines plane. A cargo plane belonging to the carrier caught fire while loading cargo at Pudong Shanghai airport on July 22, 2020. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  Tesfa-Alem Tekle

Contributor

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • The cargo plane caught fire at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport Wednesday afternoon. 

An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane caught fire in China on Wednesday, officials confirmed.

The plane was loading cargo at Shanghai Pudong International Airport in preparation for a regular flight to Santiago, Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement.

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