PRESIDENT'S PLANE IN FORCE-LANDING AT KIA.
PRESIDENT J.A. Kufuor’s trip to Equatorial Guinea on Saturday,
to participate in that country’s celebration independence celebration,
was cut short when the plane developed
a fault in mid-air. The 34-year-old Fokker 28 presidential jet,
carrying also top state officials, security details and journalists,
including Times Correspondent Samuel Amoako,
had to make an emergency landing at Kotoka International Airport.
The plain developed what aviation experts called a “pressurisation”.
The aircraft had covered only 20 minutes of the three-and-half hour journey
when the fault was detected and the pilots decided to return to Accra.
Full story here.
Credit: The Ghanaian Times / Samuel Amoako.
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Re: PRESIDENT'S PLANE IN FORCE-LANDING AT KIA.
It is probably safe to assume the plane suffered depressurization...cHabu wrote:The plain developed what aviation experts called a “pressurisation”.
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