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SYDNEY: An AirAsia X flight made an emergency landing in Australia today after the aircraft developed a problem with its map navigation display, regulators said.

The flight, listed on tracking websites as an Airbus A330, left Sydney en route to Kuala Lumpur but turned back and landed in the southern Australian city of Melbourne.

"They had some kind of problem with their map navigation display system in the cockpit," a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority told AFP.

The long-haul, low-cost Malaysian airline confirmed the diversion but was unable to immediately say how many people were on board the flight.

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