Sudan plane crash lands in Khartoum as wheels jam

Foam covers the tarmac after a Sudan Airways plane was forced to crash land at Khartoum airport yesterday after its wheels jammed

A Sudan Airways plane carrying 45 passengers was forced to crash land at Khartoum airport yesterday after its wheels jammed, a civil aviation spokesman said, without causing deaths or serious injury. The Fokker 50 aircraft left the Sudanese capital bound for the southern town of Malakal but the young pilot was unable to deploy the wheels on arrival and returned directly to Khartoum, Abdelhafez Abdelrahim told AFP. Aviation authorities instructed the pilot to fly around the city for more than an hour, to burn up two tonnes of fuel still in the aircraft before the descent, and covered the runway with chemicals to facilitate the landing.