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Ghana International Airlines says its London-bound flight’s emergency landing early Saturday in Algeria was ‘precautionary.’
The pilot is said to have made an emergency landing after he detected a “fault in the hydraulic system of the flight,” Chief Executive Gifty Anna-Myers told Joy News.
Passengers said they heard a loud explosion but authorities said there were no casualties.
Most of the 115 aboard were said to be in a state of shock.
The passengers have since been airlifted to Libya where they are awaiting another aircraft to fly them to London, their final destination.
Mrs Anna-Myers said a backup flight in Italy was set to airlift the passengers to Gatwick.
The flight from Algeria should touch down at Gatwick by 7:30pm, the GIA boss told Joy News.
Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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