Ethiopian Airways aircraft grounded
An Ethiopian Airlines has been grounded at the Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Senegal after escaping an accident, The East African reports.
The aircraft taxied and took off successfully twice but continued to make two emergency landings at the airport.
According to media reports, the pilots complained of technical difficulties mid air as the aircraft lost altitude.
On the first emergency landing, 45 minutes into a flight to Addis Ababa, the pilots said that one of the wings of the aircraft had developed a fault.
"When we noticed that the flight was not attaining the normal altitude, we thought that was the end of us," one passenger told the Sud Quotidien newspaper.
After repairing the fault, the aircraft took off again but was forced to land after 15 minutes, and has since been grounded.
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