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By Agence France-Presse
An Air India plane carrying 179 passengers struck a building at Stockholm's Arlanda airport as it was heading for the port gate on Wednesday, but no injuries were reported, police said.
FILE PHOTO: A new Air India Airbus A320 taking off at Colomiers near Toulouse, France, on December 13, 2017. Regis Duvignau, Reuters / MANILA BULLETIN
"The 179 passengers were able to get off the plane by a moving staircase and then enter the terminal," the police wrote in a statement.
The cause of the accident was not known immediately, the police said.
It happened at 17:45 (16:45 GMT), about 50 meters from Terminal 5, the main terminal of international flights.
The pictures taken on the scene show the Boeing aircraft parked on the runway, the end of his left wing stuck on the side of a building.
Several police cars and fire trucks were parked next to the plane.
According to the website of the airport operator, Swedavia, the flight originated in New Delhi.
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