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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.

47 comments:

Cute G said...

Thank Goodness.

STERN said...

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

Unknown said...

Hmmm...tank God o

#epiphany#

Unknown said...

Thank God ooo, Hallelujah...

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Olubukola Ozone said...

Thank God thr wr no disasters

Anonymous said...

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

CHERRY said...

Thank God no one died

Anonymous said...

Oh! Thank God.

Anonymous said...

Air crash here n there. Pretex4luv@yahoo.com

Angie said...

Hmm..
America and their wahala; Gold diggers!


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Anonymous said...

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

Desmond 2 d G said...

Lucky them

Unknown said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

ade said...

Thank God nodoy was hurt

Her Excellency said...

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

Anonymous said...

They must have been very lucky.
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Anonymous said...

WITCHCRAFT AND AIRCRAFT

PAVOUR said...

Lol

Unknown said...

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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Unknown said...

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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love best said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

wow..Thank GOD Almighty.

#GoodGOD

APPLE said...

Ha!!!

ary said...

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!

Bony bony said...

Alhamdulilahi

PC said...

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.

Unknown said...

Lucky them,it would have been a different story

Unknown said...

Lucky them,it would have been a different story

Anonymous said...

Sorry I meant "miraculously". oz

Anonymous said...

Thank God



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Unknown said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

thankGod..patoswife@gmail.com

Unknown said...

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

Anonymous said...

Odikwa egwu.....


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Anonymous said...

If Na 9ja Nw! Na Gej Cos Am.

Anonymous said...

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Unknown said...

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

Anonymous said...

I can imagine the panic and prayers said before the pilot landed the plane to a safe place. Very Lucky i must say.
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Idijuwon omo-ibadan said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

God is wonderful wonderful, Tnks to do almighty

Anonymous said...

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

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