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Aviation Herald is reporting that an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 freighter, registration ET-AYL performing freight flight ET-3891 from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to Ndola (Zambia), was expected to land at Ndola’s current Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport but landed on Ndola’s new Copperbelt International Airport that is located about 9nm west-north-west of the current airport and is still under construction.
Incredibly the aircraft taxied to the apron, where airport construction workers signaled to the crew they were not expected at that airport.
So not being welcomed the pilots continued taxiing across the apron, entered the runway via the next taxiway, and departed again to try and find the right airport.
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On Monday, an Ethiopian Airlines plane mistakenly landed at an airport that is still under construction in Zambia, according to international reports.
An Ethiopian Airlines flight destined for Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe International Airport in Zambia landed at the not-yet-finished airport in Zambia’s northern Copperbelt province, by mistake, after the pilot made some navigation faults or the flight paperwork was submitted inaccurately.
“When the pilot was about to land he was communicating with the radar, and they told him: ‘We can’t see you, ” according to Misheck Lungu, the Zambian Transport Ministry’s permanent secretary.