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ZAMBIA LANDING

GOOF-UP

but flying 60 kilometres north of Ndola it
steered to the south-westerly direction for
pilot landed Ethiopian Airlines the airport under construction.
ACargo flight ET3891 at an unfin- 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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