{"id":355601,"date":"2021-04-06T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=355601"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:20:12","slug":"ethiopian-airlines-plane-mistakenly-landed-an-unopened-airport-still-under-construction-in-zambia-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/355601","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Airlines plane mistakenly landed an unopened airport still under construction in Zambia &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) An Ethiopian Airlines plane mistakenly landed at an unopened airport still under construction in Zambia, the carrier confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The flight &#8212; a cargo service traveling from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and destined for Ndola, Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport &#8212; instead landed Sunday at Zambia&#8217;s new Copperbelt International Airport, which has not yet been inaugurated, the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The flight &#8212; ET 3891 &#8212; made a safe landing in the new airport, Ethiopian Airlines added.<\/p>\n<p>The Copperbelt International Airport is about 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport by car.<\/p>\n<p>The transport ministry&#8217;s permanent secretary Misheck Lungu said the pilot had landed at the unopened airport &#8220;by error.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) An Ethiopian Airlines plane mistakenly landed at an unopened airport still under construction in Zambia, the carrier confirmed Monday. The flight &#8212; a cargo service traveling from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and destined for Ndola, Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe Airport &#8212; instead landed Sunday at Zambia&#8217;s new Copperbelt International Airport, which has not yet been inaugurated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":355624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Eth-2.jpg?fit=1593%2C908&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1uvv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355604,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355601\/revisions\/355604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}