Aircraft crash-lands after engine failure

The aeroplane that landedon the Mmopane tarred road doe to a technical glitch PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
The aeroplane that landedon the Mmopane tarred road doe to a technical glitch PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

Hundreds of Mmopane villagers just outside Gaborone on Friday were treated to a rare spectacle when a privately owned small aircraft crash-landed on their busy road provoking images of plane crashes that have recently rocked the world.

Fresh from reports of Malaysia’s H370 which disappeared with 227 passengers, another Malaysian MH17 which was shot down with 298 people  and lately Air Algerie flight AH5017, which killed 110 people, frantic villagers were thinking Botswana is just about to have its own aircraft horror story unfolding in front of their eyes.

Youngster Kgosi Lukase claims he was the first one on the scene. “I was coming from the shops when I saw this aircraft going in zigzags in the air; it was not making any sound, as if the engine was not working. It landed and moved a distance of 100 metres. It nearly collided with a truck which was coming  from the opposite direction; another small car was also on the road when the aircraft landed; I wonder how it missed colliding with the truck, it was a close call”, narrated Lukase.

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