THE smell from an airline passenger's overheated laptop computer has sparked an emergency at the Gold Coast Airport. The Virgin Blue Boeing 737-700 was half an hour from Coolangatta on a flight from Sydney late yesterday when the pilot radioed ahead to have emergency services put on standby.
Posted July 14, 2005
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