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.
