Aeroplane lands on Masaka-Kampala highway

[Zogwale]

Huyu ********* ni mbaguzi na posts zake zote ni za kibaguzi.
shame on you. Kwani huku Afrika unatafuta nini wewe mkimbizi usiye na kwenu? Si ni shida za kwenu tu zinakukimbiza huku na kule?
Kila post yako imejaa ubaguzi dhidi ya blacks hivi una shida gani wewe?

Mkuu mweleze kabisa. Kwanza atupe statistics za ajali za ndege duniani na rubani ni akina nani katika matukio hayo?? Tuanzie tu kwa Tanzania, nasifu sana tuna marubani wazuri mno, tatizo hatuna ndege tu basi. Huyu fisadi wa ubaguzi wa rangi usisogee kabisa hapa maana utapakwa matope mpaka ujibadilio ID uingie kivingine!!!

 

[Bigirita]

anatafuta kumegwa kama komamanga huyu jamaa!

Rubani kichwa huyo, ameona tatizo na amelisolve kwa kutumia akili za ki-black.

 

[Edson]

nimetoka singapore jana kwa wakwe zangu, ndege ilikuwa inaendeshwa na rubani mweusi.huyu jamaa aliyesema hapandi ndege inayoendeshwa na mwafrika ni mjinga sana.
isitoshe hajawahi panda ndege. hawa ndo watu ambao hata ukiwaweka kwenye chupa bado wananyoosha vidole,

shenzi sana

 

[The Truth]

Which ones have a higher crash rate statistically? African airlines or others.

African blitz on 'flying coffins'

Africa accounts for more than a quarter of the world's air crashes
African countries and airlines running unsafe planes face a crackdown from the African Civil Aviation Commission.
AFCAC president Tshepo Pheege said it would name and shame airlines operating what he called "flying coffins".

Nearly 400 people died last year in air accidents in Africa, which has a crash rate six times the world average.

At the same time, Nigeria has grounded a third domestic airline. Nigeria's president launched a task force on air safety after two major crashes in 2005.

"One of the most important things in choosing an airline is how safe it is," said Mr Pheege. "You don't want to fly out as a passenger and come back as cargo."

Africa accounts for only 4% of global air traffic but 27% of all air crashes.


More than 200 died in two accidents in Nigeria last year

Last year, 15 air accidents were recorded in Africa.

AFCAC, a specialised agency of the African Union, will be following up on whether its recommendations are being adhered to.

Mr Pheege said lack of transparency among many African states had resulted in safety concerns being ignored.

Nigeria acts

On Monday, the Nigerian presidential task force created to improve aircraft safety grounded Executive Airline Services, the third Nigerian carrier to be targeted under new safety rules.

A spokesman for the company said the order related to administrative, rather than technical irregularities, and flights would soon resume.

More than 200 people were killed in two air disasters in Nigeria within a month last year.

Two airlines which had been ordered to stop flying have since had the restriction lifted.

These include Sosoliso, the owner of a plane which crashed in Port Harcourt in December, killing 117 people.

Aside from the Nigerian accidents, the biggest culprits in 2005 were Russian-built planes, Mr Pheege said.

 

[The Truth]

Africa's aviation industry called ‘flying coffins'

Troubles plague continent's airlines: poverty, conflict and poor governance
The Associated Press
updated 2:58 p.m. PT, Sun., March. 26, 2006

DAKAR, Senegal - The pilot pressed a flask-sized bottle of vodka to his lips and swallowed deeply before piloting his geriatric aircraft down a jungle runway in eastern Congo.

The Antonov flying valuable tin ore and two passengers out of the war-battered region made the trip safely that day. But many others don't. Citing safety concerns the European Union banned 92 airlines Wednesday from its airspace. Most of the airlines are from Africa, where planes are six times likelier to crash than elsewhere and travelers swap tales of crises averted.

In announcing the ban on virtually all aircraft overseen by civil aviation authorities in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Swaziland and Congo from landing at European airports, EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot labeled many of the planes "flying coffins."

Wednesday's ban and earlier similar orders rankle many Africans. They point out that most of the banned airlines-like Thom's Airways from Congo-no longer operate and never fly to Europe anyway, while Africans have little choice but to use them to hop around the world's poorest continent.

The deputy director of the civil aviation in Sierra Leone, which had 13 airlines banned, said his country had not had a safety audit by the main aviation-industry oversight group since the end of the country's brutal 1989-2002 civil war.

Still, "every state has sovereignty over its airspace," said Badara Allieu Tarrawallie.

The troubles in African nations are the same stymieing its aviation industry: poverty, conflict and poor governance. With little oversight, safety audits go undone and small problems are left unattended.

In Nigeria late last year, two planes flying domestic routes crashed within seven weeks of each other killing 224 people, including dozens of schoolchildren heading home for Christmas holidays. The causes of those crashes have not been determined, but Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has referred to an intelligence report detailing safety problems involving Nigerian airlines, including planes experiencing landing gear trouble.

In December, Obasanjo blamed corruption for some of the troubles in his country's aviation industry and called in international experts for a safety review.

A continentwide trend of economic liberalization may be fueling faster-than average passenger growth as former state-owned airlines go private amid new competition-even as poor governments fail to adapt and oversee the growth.

"You've got the general problem of poverty and lack of government capacity. In Africa, everyone is encouraged to privatize, but there is a very important role of the state, strengthening oversight and regulatory mechanisms as you open up the economy," says Princeton Lyman, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, currently a Council on Foreign Affairs fellow. "We've gone far in one way, but not the other."

Even many of Africa's larger airlines fly secondhand aircraft purchased from overseas.

Many other airlines, particularly in vast Congo, fly rickety old jets or propeller-driven planes, including some old military aircraft converted to passenger aircraft with the addition of plastic patio-style chairs.

Stories proliferate of outrageous misfortune-like presidents' wives commandeering entire sections of the now-defunct Air Afrique for shopping junkets in Paris, stranding paying passengers behind.

One solution might be banning castoff aircraft from former Soviet-bloc nations. Spare parts can be hard to obtain and some of the aging planes' maintenance documentation has been lost.

"We've witnessed accidents in countries with conflict, like Congo, Angola and Sudan," says Elijah Hingosso, an official with Nairobi, Kenya-based African Airlines Association. "Many of these flights took place in areas outside of government control, so there's no oversight. We've also tended to notice in the past that many aircraft come from the former USSR."

"We're urging governments to stop getting these old aircraft," said Hingosso, who says the number of passengers is growing at between 6 and 7 percent annually-slightly higher than the global rate.

There are bright spots, including South African Airways, Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airlines. Many African pilots who have honed their skills on the continent's cracked runways are known as skilled navigators of crisis zones. A South African crew runs a route between Amman, Jordan, and Iraq's Baghdad, where the plane approaches the runway in a tight downward corkscrew to avoid ground fire.

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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10157495/

 

[The Truth]

His a "slum dog" if you have seen the movie "Slum Dog Millionaire" which portrays the reality of most Indians. Don't waste your breath.

What is the reality of most Africans?

 

[Dingswayo]

What is the reality of most Africans?

What is YOUR reality? Believe me, I would not like to be in it.

 

[jacobae]

Any airplane that is serviced by Africans or flown by Africans is a flying coffin or has a very high probability of turning into one. That's why I don't fly African carriers. These tourists better thank their lucky stars.

You guy must be crazy, shame on you!