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Accident: Starbow B463 at Tamale on Oct. 6th, Overran Runway, Nose Gear Collapsed

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Tatjana Obrazcova
Country: Ghana Aircraft: Airplanes

A Starbow Airlines British Aerospace BAe 146-300, registration 9G-SBB performing flight S9-110 from Accra to Tamale (Ghana) with 76 passengers, landed on Tamale's runway 23 at 08:31L (08:31Z) but overran the end of the runway, broke through a barrier and came to a stop with the nose gear collasped on pavement being prepared to become a runway extension. There were no injuries, the occupants disembarked the aircraft normally. The aircraft received substantial damage.

Ghana's Civil Aviation Authority have dispatched a team of investigators to Tamale.

Tamale features a runway 05/23 of 8,000 feet/2,440 meters length.





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