Written By Henry Kimoli ||
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has kicked off investigations into the Fly 540 aircraft which stalled on the runway for almost four hours.
Director General Gilbert Kibe said the incident happened at about 5 pm when the Dash 8 aircraft developed a nose wheel steering jam on entry into the runway at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport through one of the taxways.
He said several attempts by a number of engineering teams from different airlines faced challenges to remove the aircraft taking into account the need to avoid a breakage of the nose wheel and it took four and half hours to remove it.
The incident caused 15 diversions to Mombasa, Kilimanjaro, Entebbe and Dar es Salaam while four flights failed to take off.
Many passengers were stranded until 9.30pm when operations resumed.
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