Two pilots aboard a Corporate Air Company aircraft survived an emergency landing after the plane developed a fault near the Department of National Parks and Wildlife offices in Kangono National Park, Nangoma Constituency.
Blue Lagoon Wildlife Officer-in-Charge, Fred Kapopo, confirmed that both pilots sustained head injuries but are in stable condition.
MR Kapopo said the two have since been evacuated to Lusaka for medical treatment.
When the incident occurred National Parks and Wildlife officers responded swiftly and securing the aircraft.
Meanwhile, Nangoma Member of Parliament, Collins Nzovu, visited the scene and urged the surrounding community to remain calm.
The media reports that the aircraft, which was transporting African Parks workers to Kafue National Park, lost control midair and will soon be transported back to Kenneth Kaunda International Airport.
It is not an ’emergency landing.’ An emergency landing is landing on an approved airstrip or runway in a controlled manner. Landing anywhere else is a CRASH landing, even if nothing is broken.
Thank God that Noone has perished. Where’s Kangono national park and what’s the nearest airstrip there?
Is this near Lochinvar?
Lochnivar is on the southern side of the Kafue River, accessible from the Monze side, Blue Lagoon National Park (near where this incident occurred) is on the northern side of the Kafue River, accessible from the Lusaka-Mumbwa tar road via a gravel road from Nangoma. I don’t know if Blue Lagoon National Park has been re-named “Kangono”, but looking at the photo, the plane was on the Kafue Flood Plain (“Kafue Flats”), consistent with Blue Lagoon National Park where zebras, lechwe, etc., roam.