caribb From Canada, joined Nov 1999, 1627 posts, RR: 9 Reply 5, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 32968 times:
They are now saying it was an Allied Air Cargo jet taking off ..they have a 707 and a 727, the latter of which was the plane that crashed as mentioned in the first post. There are 14 deaths sadly, mostly from a bus or van it hit on the ground near the El Wak Sports stadium. I'm listening on the net to Radio XYZ in Accra.
MHTripple7 From United States of America, joined Feb 2008, 1050 posts, RR: 5 Reply 6, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 32446 times:
This is terrible. Does anyone know the weather at the time of the crash?
"Ground witnesses report the aircraft broke through the perimeter fence, went across a main road colliding with an occupied bus before coming to a stop."
B738FlyUIA From Switzerland, joined Dec 2009, 473 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 31355 times:
I pray there are survivors and terrible news really!!
On http://avherald.com/ there is some little news and very small report!! I hope for the good news in the morning and pity that there is another Boeing 727 that left the sky's!!!
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GEG2RAP From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 838 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 29482 times:
wasn't that the plane that operated the flight that was the Final Jeopardy question the other night????
Talk about irony if it was!!!
Pray for the crew and their family!!
AWACSooner From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1415 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 28682 times:
PHX787 From Japan, joined Mar 2012, 4952 posts, RR: 15 Reply 17, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 27284 times:
Quoting sciurusmdg (Reply 8): "Ground witnesses report the aircraft broke through the perimeter fence, went across a main road colliding with an occupied bus before coming to a stop."
Quoting 71Zulu (Reply 13): Now saying it crashed on landing, and that it landed long on a wet runway and couldn't stop.
Sounds like it shouldn't have landed there at that time, or if an alternate wasn't possible, should've really applied the brakes. Sad to see this happen, RIP to everybody
jeffry747 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 961 posts, RR: 2 Reply 19, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 26315 times:
This accident seems to parallel the WN accident at MDW some years ago. Aircraft lands in bad weather and is unable to stop. Aircraft leaves the runway, leaves the airport property, and impacts vehicles on a busy street nearby. Fatalities in the vehicles struck. Oddly enough, as in the WN accident, the plane is still mostly in one piece.
Sad to see lives lost in another accident, and may the victims R.I.P. Also sad to see a classic 727 lost in a crash. The 727 is probably my second favorite airliner (after the 747), and I wanna see them continuing to fly for as long as I'm around.
JHCRJ700 From United States of America, joined Oct 2009, 377 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 25919 times:
Quoting GEG2RAP (Reply 14): wasn't that the plane that operated the flight that was the Final Jeopardy question the other night????
Talk about irony if it was!!!
Pray for the crew and their family!!
WOW! That was my first thought too. That is really bizarre.
kl692 From Canada, joined Feb 2006, 651 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 25827 times:
I just woke to this, I get push emails about what is happening in Ghana which is MY home Country and this is very very sad day for me and the Country as this is first major accident in the country involving A/C. 10 people kill on the ground, that is just have very sad.
Ghana go through a lots of raining during this time of the year (raining season)
kl692 From Canada, joined Feb 2006, 651 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (11 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 25600 times:
Airport seems to be operating normal with no delays, here a couple pictures I came across on the web. courtesy of myjoyonline.
A310, A330,A346,B73H, B747,B772,B77W,CRJ
25 Viscount724: Coincidentally, that aircraft was also mentioned in this thread a couple of days ago. Tonight's "Final Jeopardy!": Airline History (by UALFAson May 3
26 71Zulu: Spoilers are down (could they have leaked down?), flaps look like 35, does this model 727 have autobrake? Thanks, saw that mentioned but missed the co
27 jpetekyxmd80: More pictures: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...4.704080998%26type%3D3&h=OAQHdO4iL
28 AeroWesty: I get: "This content is currently unavailable."
29 Alibo5NGN: The crew of 4 survived and are receiving treatment at the airport clinic. The aircraft 5N-BJN is definitely a write off. May the souls of the 10 peopl
30 kl692: You have to log into your face book account if you have in order to view them.
31 Superfly: This is terrible news. Condolences to the families of those who passed away. Also sad to see a classic jetliner's life come to an end like this. ...an
32 ManuCH: Apparently not: we're not friends on Facebook but I can see the photos.
33 817Dreamliiner: I can see them as well, what a terrible sight, definitely a writeoff
34 EPA001: Very sad news to hear and see on this Sunday morning. RIP for all the victims.
35 soups: That junction is a very busy junction. It could have been a lot worse with rushhour traffic
36 KC135TopBoom: Yes, and AA-1420 that crashed in LIT in 1999. It also landed in a heavy thunderstorm, landed long and ran off the end of the runway.
37 Superfly: Any suggestions? I'd like to see the photos but can not.
38 71Zulu: I've checked that link a half dozen times since posted and have yet to see the photos either.
40 PHX787: Thank god it wasn't anything more than a bus, but one death is too many Btw happy joining day anniversary, soups!
41 F9animal: Oh man! If the plane had missed that bus, or the bus missed the plane, we might not be talking any loss of life. Those poor people.
42 aviateur: I was at the airport in ACC when this happened. The airport closed only briefly. We took off about two hours after the accident. We could see some eme
43 CO777DAL: Wow thanks for sharing! Is that blood on the ground in some of the photos, like by the body bags and truck??? That is really sad.
44 PoianaMarco: Well good thing that it wasn´t comercial airplane..
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