Ethiopian Air cargo plane skids off runway at Ghana's Kotoka Airport
ACCRA,
Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- An Ethiopian Airlines cargo aircraft on Saturday
skidded off the runway at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) on
landing, Ghanaian airport officials said.
"All
three crew people on board the aircraft survived the accident and are
currently responding to treatment at the 37 Military Hospital," the
Ghana Airport Company (GAC) said in a statement.
The
Boeing 737, ET-AQV (Ethiopian Airline Cargo Aircraft), operated by Asky
Airlines, was landing at the Ghanaian national airport from the
Togolese capital Lome when the accident took place at 11:05 a.m. local
time.
The cause of the accident is still unknown and the country's emergency teams are on the site of the accident, it said.
The
teams include the Ghana National Fire Service; National Disaster
Management Organization; Ghana Armed Forces; Ghana Police, National
Security; Ghana Civil Aviation Authority and the GAC.
The statement assured that there were normal operations going on at the airport and flights were "operating on schedule".
Flights
at the airport were rescheduled on Friday due to poor visibility as a
result of the Harmattan (North-Easterly cold Winds) with its hazy
weather.
On June 2, 2012, an Allied Air Cargo
plane overshot the runway at the KIA, killing 10 passengers in a
commercial passenger bus adjacent the airport.
Source : http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150110/ethiopian-air-cargo-plane-skids-runway-at-ghanas-kotoka-airp
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