{"id":45679,"date":"2022-04-20T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandair-s-aircraft-skids-off-at-entebbe-airport\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T13:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T13:30:46","slug":"rwandair-s-aircraft-skids-off-at-entebbe-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandair-s-aircraft-skids-off-at-entebbe-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"RwandAir\u2019s aircraft skids off at Entebbe Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incident saw the aircraft landing in grasses nearby the airport\u2019s runway. In a statement released today, RwandAir revealed that all passengers and  the WB464 flight crew deplaned safely with no reported injuries.  <\/p>\n<p>The Communications Manager at RwandAir, Fiona Mbabazi has told IGIHE that the runway excursion during the process of landing is not unusual.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt results from bad weather or slippery ground at an airport.  No one was injured. All people are safe,\u201d she said.   <\/p>\n<p>RwandAir is among airlines from the region and Africa that have rarely faced technical issues delaying passengers\u2019 flights and accidents. <\/p>\n<p>One of the plane\u2019s accidents that dominated news headlines is an incident that occurred on 12th November 2009 at13:15 where the RwandAir\u2019s aircraft crashed into the VIP lounge two minutes after taking off from the Kigali International Airport, killing one passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan passenger died shortly after reaching King Faisal Hospital in Kigali. At the time, the plane was headed to Uganda and had fifteen people on board.<\/p>\n<p>The plane crash put airport business activities at standstill for hours.<\/p>\n<p>The then management of RwandAir told the media that the plane (Jetlink Bombardier CL-600-2B19) leased from the Nairobi-based Jetlink Express, had technical difficulties with the engine shortly after taking off and required an emergency landing.<\/p>\n<p>The plane crashed at a time when another plane- Kenya Airlines was preparing to take off but the pilot dodged and crashed into the VIP lounge.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41987 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/grassland.jpg\" alt=\"RwandAir\u2019s aircraft has skidded off  runway at Entebbe International Airport. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41988 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_image_2022-04-20_at_8.36_33_am-fcd24.jpg\" alt=\"The plan landed in grasses nearby the airport\u2019s runway.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{RwandAir\u2019s aircraft which took off from Kigali in the wee hours of Wednesday flying to Kampala in Uganda has been involved in a runway excursion in the process of landing at Entebbe Airport as a result of bad weather.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-45679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45679"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45679"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}