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US Military Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Indonesia

by Associated Press

   Indonesia's air force says an American military plane made an emergency
   landing at an airport in Indonesia's Aceh province.
   Air Vice Marshall Jemi Trisonjaya says the U.S. Air Force plane
   requested permission to land Friday after one of its four engines
   failed.
   Trisonjaya said Saturday that permission was granted and the Boeing 707
   successfully landed at Sultan Iskandar Muda airport in Banda Aceh, the
   capital of Aceh province. The plane was carrying 20 military personnel
   to Japan's Haneda airport from Diego Garcia, an American military base
   in central Indian Ocean.
   Trisonjaya said no one on board the plane was injured.
   The cause of the plane's engine failure was unclear.