Kenyan authorities have temporarily suspended all flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi on Monday, following an aborted take-off by a Singapore Airlines (SIA) cargo plane. In a statement on Twitter at 2.32pm (Singapore time), the Kenya...
Kenyan authorities have temporarily suspended all flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Monday, following an aborted take-off by a Singapore Airlines cargo plane.
Information on flight tracking website Flightradar24 showed flight SQ7343 - a Boeing 747-412F freighter - starting to taxi onto the runway at the Jomo Kenyatta airport at 12.39pm , eventually reaching a maximum ground speed of 151 knots or about 280kmh before slowing to a stop. The plane was scheduled to fly from Nairobi to Amsterdam on Monday at 6.30am .
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