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Friday, 18 July 2014

Pics: Aircraft carrying US soldiers crash lands on Ugandan Highway

A small plane carrying 6 American soldiers today July 18th crash landed on a highway outside Uganda's capital Kampala after running out of fuel. It had to make a quick safe landing to avoid any disaster.

Reports say the plane which took off from the Entebbe airport in Uganda was heading to neighboring South Sudan when their aircraft was forced to turn back due to bad weather and then land on a highway after running out of fuel approximately 40 miles from the airport. Fortunately no on was injured. Continue...


Uganda's army spokesman, Paddy Ankunda while confirming the incident said  "Nobody was hurt. There were eight passengers including the pilot and co-pilot,".  He attributed the lack of casualties to Uganda being 'full of miracles.' "Definitely there must have been a bit of luck. A highway is not a place for aeroplanes, so they were lucky to find no vehicles," he added

Emergency teams from Entebbe International airport were quickly drafted to refuel the fixed-wing craft so that it could return to base.
at 7/18/2014 10:20:00 pm

47 comments:

  1. Cute G18 July 2014 at 22:21

    Thank Goodness.

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    1. Unknown19 July 2014 at 03:45

      Lol...Uganda full of maracles..i hear!!!

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  2. STERN18 July 2014 at 22:24

    So they took off without checking if there was fuel? Smh..thank God for their lives.

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    1. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 23:49

      No! They took off with enough fuel endurance to their destination but couldn't land because of bad weather. Sir reading thoroughly isn't so bad.

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    2. PC19 July 2014 at 01:23

      Anon 11:49pm, why not go back and read properly?
      @Stern is right.
      They did emergency landing on the high way due to lack of fuel but turned back due to the bad weather.
      They could hv gone to the tarmac but, they had to land on the high way cos they ran out of fuel.

      "forced to turn back due to bad weather and then land on a highway after running out of fuel approximately 40 miles from the airport"

      I wonder how you made through the 4-walls of University or you're prolly still a student.

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    3. Unknown19 July 2014 at 09:24

      They ran out of fuel Anon. Although the bad weather also contributed.

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    4. Idijuwon omo-ibadan19 July 2014 at 11:58

      The pilots prolly had 2 dump fuel in d face of an imminent crash.

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  3. Unknown18 July 2014 at 22:24

    Hmmm...tank God o

    #epiphany#

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  4. Unknown18 July 2014 at 22:25

    Thank God ooo, Hallelujah...

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    ¤GROWN MAN IN A YOUNG BODY¤

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  5. Olubukola Ozone18 July 2014 at 22:25

    Thank God thr wr no disasters

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  6. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 22:27

    Wonderful! What an error in American Military logistics. Thank God no one was hurt

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  7. CHERRY18 July 2014 at 22:28

    Thank God no one died

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  8. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 22:30

    Oh! Thank God.

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  9. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 22:32

    Air crash here n there. Pretex4luv@yahoo.com

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  10. Angie18 July 2014 at 22:32

    Hmm..
    America and their wahala; Gold diggers!


    * My R1.50c comment *

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  11. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 22:33

    That was how they "miraculous " gave birth to idi Amin too! Oz

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  12. Desmond 2 d G18 July 2014 at 22:33

    Lucky them

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  13. Unknown18 July 2014 at 22:34

    OUT OF FUEL??? SERIOUSLY????
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    Moye B

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  14. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 22:34

    He attributed the lack of casualties to Uganda being 'full of miracles.' If i hear, luck in UGANDA ? Idi Amin was part of the miracle

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  15. ade18 July 2014 at 22:40

    Thank God nodoy was hurt

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  16. Her Excellency18 July 2014 at 22:43

    Thank God for a safe landing...safety first!

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  17. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 22:46

    They must have been very lucky.
    Cooldavoe@yahoo.com

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  18. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 22:50

    WITCHCRAFT AND AIRCRAFT

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  19. PAVOUR18 July 2014 at 22:57

    Lol

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  20. Unknown18 July 2014 at 22:59

    Na wa oo..they don't know that their plane doesn't have much fuel in it before takin off.See carelessness of the highest order.small time na they will be shoutn plane crash.May God help us


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  21. Unknown18 July 2014 at 23:11

    a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    This is one big miracle no doubt but i stilll think they were careless not to check up first b4 takingg off....
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  22. love best18 July 2014 at 23:25

    You see! So no be only Nigerians de make mistake.

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  23. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 23:42

    @STERN read d statement again b4 u comment. Thank God no casualties#Brassman#

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  24. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 23:46

    Who told u guys there wasn't enuf fuel. The fuel in the plane was meant to travel to the south, probably after landing would get a refill to go back but was forced to go back due to bad weather then ran out of fuel due to travelling back to where it took off earlier. Read the story well and stop commenting blindly

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  25. Anonymous18 July 2014 at 23:50

    wow..Thank GOD Almighty.

    #GoodGOD

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  26. APPLE18 July 2014 at 23:55

    Ha!!!

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  27. ary19 July 2014 at 00:33

    When I first read about this in the news, my first thought was about that scene in the movie Lord of war, where a plane landed in the middle of an African market and was dismembered in a matter of minutes! Funny thing!

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  28. Bony bony19 July 2014 at 00:45

    Alhamdulilahi

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  29. Unknown19 July 2014 at 01:47

    Lucky them,it would have been a different story

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  30. Unknown19 July 2014 at 01:51

    Lucky them,it would have been a different story

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  31. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 03:18

    Sorry I meant "miraculously". oz

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  32. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 03:40

    Thank God



    BORN TO SHINE!!!!

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  33. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 05:44

    If it were Ugandan plane crash landing on American highway they would have made a big deal out of it.

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    1. Anonymous20 July 2014 at 05:23

      I was about to say the same...I live here in the states and this is not reported here

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  34. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 06:13

    thankGod..patoswife@gmail.com

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  35. Unknown19 July 2014 at 07:13

    Ha, imagine this happened in agege o.....

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  36. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 07:25

    Odikwa egwu.....


    XDON D DON

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  37. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 07:47

    If Na 9ja Nw! Na Gej Cos Am.

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  38. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 07:53

    Pifff. Jopeyemi@gmail.com

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  39. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 10:30

    I can imagine the panic and prayers said before the pilot landed the plane to a safe place. Very Lucky i must say.
    #PICCANTO#
    lausmithuj@gmail.com

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  40. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 14:28

    They would av been in hot soup if it were to be one of our great Nigerian highway full of deadly holes...

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  41. Anonymous19 July 2014 at 14:52

    God is wonderful wonderful, Tnks to do almighty

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