Spilt coffee 'caused Serb president's plane plunge'

[WorldNews]

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A co-pilot who spilt coffee on the instrument panel of the Serbian president's plane and then hit an emergency button while trying to mop it up, caused the jet to plunge, an investigation showed Tuesday. President Tomislav Nikolic was forced to abort an official visit to the Vatican on Friday after one of the engines of the plane carrying him to Rome shut down. A report by Serbia's civil aviation authority blamed the incident on the co-pilot's brush with a coffee cup. "Co-pilot Bojan Zoric accidentally knocked over coffee onto the instrument panel and, in trying to mop up the coffee, activated the 'emergency slot extension' which caused the plane to lose altitude," the report said.

 

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