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ZAMBIA LANDING
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but flying 60 kilometres north of Ndola it

KENYA UK FLIGHTS BAN pilot landed Ethiopian Airlines steered to the south-westerly direction for

the airport under construction.

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

one of the worst financial hits in its particularly indicted for not closing down ished airport in Zambia still under con- ministry said that the pilot hit the tarmac
15 kilometres away ‘in error’. He was told

history last year after several major routes that the South African variant of struction ‘by mistake’, then a second Ethio- by the ATC ahead of landing that the plane

he directive by Kenya to cut pas- carriers pulled out of Nairobi following the coronavirus known as B.1.351 entered pian Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft, flight could not be seen, and he landed ‘using
Tsenger fl ights between Nairobi the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the country. ET871, taxied on the same wrong runway eyesight’ as he had no controls.

and UK will have serious impact on the which created a serious shortage of Diplomats have however expressed minutes later, alarming the construction

local aviation sector with the capacity freight space following the closure of anger at what they feel is bad-timing. workers on the non-operational airport. POSSIBLE 'SNAG IN SOFTWARE'
of belly cargo expected to drop as Jomo airspace. Last month, the UK indicated that the However, the second pilot did an The plane caused no reported damage and

Kenya�a International Airport (JKIA) is Passenger flights normally do belly move to add Kenya to the Red List had emergency go around and flew to the the pilot eventually flew to the accurate

set to lose out on transit passengers – cargo for fresh produce and other come from the country’s failure to close correct airport, another pilot wrote in a airport following a communication lapse

pu�ng at risk its status as a regional hub. consignments for firms that do not its borders with Tanzania. Facebook post on the African aviation group. with the radar. According to the pilot that

Passenger flights account for 40 per require a whole freighter to ferry their The hard stance by the two countries A probe was ordered into the incident, shared the incident, the mistake could have
cent of all the cargo transported by air consignment to the market. is set to hit the tourism sector in Kenya although it remains unclear what prompted been caused because the Chinese-built

and a decline in capacity signals high JKIA is a major regional hub with hard as the UK is among the top source the two planes to make a landing on the Copperbelt International Airport looked

freight charges for importers. passengers from other region flying to markets. wrong runway. According to the flight like a major airport and both the plane’s

Kenya issued a directive that saw all the facility to connect flights to Asia, The tourism industry had begun to tracking site, FlightRadar24.com, the destination tarmac and where it landed

non-citizens coming in from the UK Europe or Middle East with over 1.5 recover in August last year with the first plane operated a flight from Bole wrongly were oriented in a similar direction.

required to self-isolate for 14 days before million travellers transiting through resumption of international and domestic International Airport in Addis Ababa to the However, the visual approach opted by

being admitted to the country and the JKIA, according to Kenya Civil Aviation flights. previously named ‘Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe the airline pilot was still questionable.

suspension of passenger flights between Authority. The country recorded a gradual growth Airport’ in Ndola, whose name was recently Another possibility listed by the reporting

the two countries. The Kenyan government said the in arrivals, since the resumption of changed to ‘Ndola International’. pilot was the snag in the navigation

“All passenger flights whether fact that some travellers from Nairobi international flights last year, registering Instead, the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737- software, that may have programmed the

commercial or charter between Kenya allegedly tested positive for Covid-19 in 14,049 arrivals in August, 26,018 in 800 landed on the Copperbelt International plane to land at Copperbelt.

and UK are suspended. The situation will London is not exclusive to Kenya and does September, and 39,894, in October Airport, which is yet to be finished. The authorities, however, are waiting

be reviewed by the government of Kenya not justify putting the country on the UK respectively. This airport has been renamed Simon for the ATC audio clips to ascertain how

after four weeks,” said the Kenya Ministry ‘Red List’. The Ministry of Tourism had announced Mwansa Kapwepwe. The ET-AYL aircraft was neither the pilot nor air traffic controllers

of Foreign Affairs. The decision of the UK is reportedly that Kenya would lose up to Sh80 billion destined to taxi on the eastern side of Ndola, could understand what was happening. Q

Kenya’s horticulture industry suffered based on scientific evidence, with Kenya from tourism last year. Q

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