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U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bernard Mallada (right) speaks with Japanese tourists after their plane was diverted to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on Aug. 19, 2005. More than 800 hundred passengers arrived safely and cleared through customs at Andersen after their commercial flights were diverted here due to the emergency crash landing of a Northwest 747 airliner at Won Pat International Airport, Guam. Mallada is attached to the 36th Maintenance Squadron.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bernard Mallada speaks with Japanese tourists.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Bernard Mallada (right) speaks with Japanese tourists after their plane was diverted to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, on Aug. 19, 2005. More than 800 hundred passengers arrived safely and cleared through customs at Andersen after their commercial flights were diverted here due to the emergency crash landing of a Northwest 747 airliner at Won Pat International Airport, Guam. Mallada is attached to the 36th Maintenance Squadron.

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