A small plane carrying 6 American soldiers
Yesterday 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.
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.
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