All Is well At Kotoka Int'l Airport

Accra The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCCA) today assured the public and travellers as well as airline operators that the Kotoka International airport is operational. Captain Joe Boachie, deputy director-general (technical) told reporters that the accident in which an airforce Macchi jet fighter crashed near the airforce station today did not rpt not affect flight operations at the airport. He said flights did not rpt not land minutes after the accident. However, commercial flight have started landing and taking off without any hindrance. A jet fighter being flown by a lone pilot crashed into the bush minutes after it had escorted the presidential plane which had arrived from Botswana with President Jerry Rawlings and his entourage.