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Severe Weather Wrecks Manta Air Seaplane

A Manta Air seaplane sustained extensive damage when severe weather, including strong winds, heavy rain and thunderstorms, battered the Maldives on Wednesday, with its mooring lines severed as it was slammed against a beach. The Maldives Meteorological Service warned of three more days of rough conditions as a weather system moved across the archipelago into the Arabian Sea.

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  1. Wed 10 Jan
    A Manta Air seaplane sustained extensive damage amid severe weather that battered the Maldives. on Wednesday only Maldives Republic A Manta Air seaplane sustained extensive damage amid severe weather that battered the Maldives on Wednesday.

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  • The plane was docked alongside a platform near a resort in Malé Atoll. The mooring lines that secured the aircraft to the platform severed amid rough conditions, resulting in significant damage,

    a Manta Air official Maldives Republic Open the report (Maldives Republic)

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