About 12 hours 400 passengers of El-Al's ELY008 flight, who made an emergency landing at 11:00 am yesterday at Israeli time at a military airfield in Canada, were held in the cabin of the aircraft.

The radio station "Kan Bet" transmits: Guz Bay airport is located in the town of Happi Valley Goose Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador province), in the north-east of Canada. It was founded in the 40s of the 20th century, during the Second World War, as a place for emergency refueling and refueling of military aircraft and is not designed to receive large passenger aircraft.

On January 14, the Happi Valley-Goose air temperature dropped below 33 degrees Celsius. Since the passengers did not have warm clothes, they could not go outside. + After 11 hours of waiting at the airfield Guz Bay landed a liner sent by the company "El Al" to pick up passengers and deliver them to Israel.

The plane left Canada about 00. 00 according to Israeli time, reports newsru. co. il Flight ELY008 made an emergency landing due to a breakdown which could lead to the ignition of one of the engines.