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Korean plane makes emergency landing in Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Korean Air Lines Co Ltd plane made an emergency landing at an airport on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido on Thursday, but no one was injured.

Television showed the plane landing smoothly in mistyweather at Shin Chitose airport, after the airline said itplanned to divert there on its way to its intended destinationof New York.

The plane dumped fuel in the ocean and changed course aftera cockpit indicator showed a problem with a power source, aspokesman for Japan's Transport Ministry said.

There were 322 people aboard the Boeing 747-400, aspokesman for Korean Air Lines in Seoul said. No one wasinjured, an official with the company in Tokyo said.

(Reporting by Cheon Jong-woo in Seoul and Mari Saito andChisa Fujioka in Tokyo; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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