General News of Tuesday, 24 January 2006

Source: GNA

South African Airways flight makes emergency landing

Accra, Jan. 24, GNA - A South African Airways flight on Monday night made an emergency landing at the Kotoka International Airport after developing a technical problem shortly after take-off.

Sources at the offices of South African Airways on Tuesday confirmed to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that Monday night's flight, which returned 30 minutes after taking off, did so as a result of a technical fault.

According to the sources the technical problem would, however, not affect subsequent flights; they would follow the usual flight schedule. According to the sources, investigations were being carried out on the incident.