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11/04/2024 01:23:25 pm

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The hurricane in Wuhan blew a plane to a bridge and raised the roof

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The sky is dark and a hurricane with wind of 34 meter every second "visited" Wuhan Tianhe airport. This is the worst weather has even been there. In 15 minutes, the hurricane raised the roof , blew a boeing plane to a bridge and threw a 4 tons cart.

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"I look up and found out that the roof was gone. The bubbles are everywhere!" Mr. Wang said. It was 6pm, and he was in the terminal 2. Suddenly he saw lots of yellow form materials and it was getting more and more. Then the metal board is missing and only left a thin glass.

Another passage Mr. Song supposed to take CA 4588 and he was in the VIP room. He said he heard a loud noise and a pendant fell down. One minute later, rain leaked from every corner and they have to go out.

Some people said at 6 in the evening, the wind became stronger and stronger and even the plane is turned around by itself. Some plane hit the bridge.

We knew that several planes turned around and have different level destroy. There was one 230 tons plane turned around and hit the bridge. That's a strange thing they never seen before.

At 9:40 pm, the official news said that the Tianhe Airport closed at 6 pm because of the hurricane, which has influence on more than 20 flights. Till 7:50 pm, everything went normal and they took some measures to fix the emergency.

Vice president of Air Control said that this hurricane is really rare and they didn't think about such terrible result. That's why they didn't prepare for it completely and they had big lost yesterday.

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