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International locations banning planes is pretty widespread; simply have a look at the refusal of many European states to permit Russian plane of their airspace over the invasion of Ukraine.
In some instances airways are deemed unsafe, or have had too many crashes or investigations.
What’s uncommon, nonetheless, is a complete nation specifying {that a} single airplane can’t enter its airspace. That is precisely what Ghana has executed to 1 Delta Air Traces plane, a 767-300 with the license plate N195DN.
This particular airplane has been used lately on the New York, US to the Ghanaian capital, Accra, route, however it appears that evidently the African nation’s persistence with the 25-year-old plane has run out after a collection of faults and delays.
In a letter to the US airline, which was printed in native media, the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) reported that N195DN suffered a “gas imbalance” concern on July 31 and August 1.
It adopted one other downside days earlier: “This was the identical plane that needed to return to JFK on twenty fifth July, 2022 just a few hours after take-off from JFK and which was extensively reported on in numerous media shops.”
Actually, it was the second time in two days that this specific airplane needed to return mid-flight attributable to a mechanical concern, stories aviation weblog One Mile At A Time.
The letter from GCAA added that, “it was anticipated that after such unfavorable reportage, Delta Airways would have totally investigated the difficulty to reach on the root reason behind the failure earlier than dispatching the plane on flights”.
“Relatively, the plane was flown inside america a lot of instances after which dispatched once more to Accra, just for the issue to reoccur.
“The Authority finds this unacceptable.”
Delta Air Traces has been approached for remark.
