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ZAMBIA LANDING
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but flying 60 kilometres north of Ndola it

steered to the south-westerly direction for

pilot landed Ethiopian Airlines the airport under construction.

ACargo fl ight ET3891 at an unfi n- A government official at Africa’s transport

ished airport in Zambia still under con- ministry said that the pilot hit the tarmac

struction ‘by mistake’, then a second Ethio- 15 kilometres away ‘in error’. He was told

pian Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft, flight by the ATC ahead of landing that the plane

could not be seen, and he landed ‘using
ET871, taxied on the same wrong runway eyesight’ as he had no controls.
minutes later, alarming the construction

workers on the non-operational airport. POSSIBLE 'SNAG IN SOFTWARE'
However, the second pilot did an The plane caused no reported damage and

emergency go around and flew to the the pilot eventually flew to the accurate

correct airport, another pilot wrote in a airport following a communication lapse

Facebook post on the African aviation group. with the radar. According to the pilot that
A probe was ordered into the incident, shared the incident, the mistake could have
although it remains unclear what prompted been caused because the Chinese-built
the two planes to make a landing on the Copperbelt International Airport looked

wrong runway. According to the flight like a major airport and both the plane’s

tracking site, FlightRadar24.com, the destination tarmac and where it landed

first plane operated a flight from Bole wrongly were oriented in a similar direction.

International Airport in Addis Ababa to the However, the visual approach opted by
previously named ‘Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe the airline pilot was still questionable.

Airport’ in Ndola, whose name was recently Another possibility listed by the reporting

changed to ‘Ndola International’. pilot was the snag in the navigation

Instead, the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737- software, that may have programmed the

800 landed on the Copperbelt International plane to land at Copperbelt.

Airport, which is yet to be finished. The authorities, however, are waiting

This airport has been renamed Simon for the ATC audio clips to ascertain how

Mwansa Kapwepwe. The ET-AYL aircraft was neither the pilot nor air traffic controllers

destined to taxi on the eastern side of Ndola, could understand what was happening. Q
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