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Israeli plane makes emergency lanoing in Jordan

AMMAN: An El Al Israeli passenger jet made an emergency landing Friday at Queen Alia International Airport, two days ahead of the opening of commercial flights between Jordan and Israel.

The Boeing 747, on a scheduled flight from Paris to Tel Aviv, landed at the Amman airport due to bad weather and heavy fog. It stayed on the ground for three hours, then resumed its flight to Israel when conditions there had improved, an airport source said.

The number of people on board the plane was not known.

Jordan and Israel signed a peace treaty in October 1994, ending nearly five decades of a formal state of war.

The two Mideast neighbors are scheduled to launch commercial flights on Sunday under a transport agreement.-AP