A Sudan Airways Fokker 50 plane with 45 people on board makes an emergency landing after experiencing a problem with its landing gear at Khartoum airport October 2, 2011. No one was injured in the incident, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
Rescue workers spray foam on a Sudan Airways Fokker 50 plane after it made an emergency landing at Khartoum Airport October 2, 2011. The plane, which was carrying 45 people on board, made an emergency landing after experiencing a problem with its landing gear. No one was injured in the incident, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
Rescue workers stand near a Sudan Airways Fokker 50 plane after spraying it with foam at Khartoum Airport October 2, 2011.
The plane, which was carrying 45 people on board, made an emergency landing after experiencing a problem with its landing gear. No one was injured in the incident, according to the Civil Aviation Authority.
KHARTOUM — A Sudan Airways plane carrying 45 passengers was forced to crash land at Khartoum airport on Sunday after its wheels jammed, a civil aviation spokesman said, without causing deaths or serious injury.
The Fokker 50 aircraft left the Sudanese capital bound for the southern town of Malakal but the young pilot was unable to deploy the wheels on arrival and returned directly to Khartoum, Abdelhafez Abdelrahim told AFP.
Aviation authorities instructed the pilot to fly around the city for more than an hour, to burn up two tons of fuel still in the aircraft before the descent, and covered the runway with chemicals to facilitate the landing.
The Sudan Airways general manager blamed US sanctions for the technical problems that caused the near-fatal accident.
"American sanctions impact on the whole aviation industry in Sudan, because we face many difficulties in getting spare parts," Al-Obeid Mohammed told reporters.
It was the latest in a series of air crashes and accidents in Sudan, whose national carrier is on a list of airlines banned from the EU because they do not meet European safety standards.
At least 30 people burned to death when a Sudan Airways Airbus A310, carrying more than 200 people, burst into flames on landing in Khartoum in 2008.
Over 45 passengers on Sunday survived in a Sudanair passenger plane's emergency landing at Khartoum airport due to a technical fault.
The Fokker 50 plane was on a normal flight between Khartoum and Malakal in South Sudan, with 45 passengers on board.
"The plane has safely landed and no one was hurt during the emergency landing," said Abdul-Hafez Abdul-Hafeez, spokesman of the Sudanese Civil Aviation Authority, in a statement.
The airport authorities closed the roads near the airport and supported the runway sides with sand, which contributed to the safe landing of the plane though one of its tires has not completely opened.
Plane incidents have recently happened repeatedly in Sudan, which the Sudanese government blames the United States for its economic sanctions imposed on Sudan including on plane spare-parts.
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