Nairobi airport closed temporarily after plane makes emergency landing


  • World
  • Monday, 28 Nov 2016

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A plane from Somalia landed on its belly and veered off the runway at Nairobi's international airport on Sunday, causing no casualties but prompting the authorities to temporarily close the runway.

Kenya Airports Authority said on Twitter that the plane had four people on board when it made the emergency landing at 4.55 p.m. (1355 GMT) at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

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