Airplane Crashes Into Wild Pig On Runway, Reveals Zimbabwe's Air Safety Failures

Times Online:

It took a wild pig on the runway at Harare International Airport to reveal what many Zimbabweans have long feared: the country's Civil Aviation Authority and the national airline have gone the way of much of Zimbabwe's other frayed institutions.

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Comments

[T4Obama]

Actually, stuff like that happens here in the US. A few years ago (but still post 9/11) my old boss and I were working on an engineering project at the NASA Glenn Research facility in Cleveland, which is adjacent to Cleveland Hopkins International airport. Both the airport and the NASA facility were adding on, and our job was to find space for all the extra underground utilities that would be needed. On this particular day we were surveying the physical structures, to make sure what was on blueprints matched up with reality. We were having trouble finding a certain switch gear when I made a wrong turn, passed through an open, unguarded automatic gate and next thing we knew we were driving on the runway at CLE. Luckily no planes were taxiing/landing in the two or three seconds it took us to realize that we were somewhere we weren't supposed to be, but it wasn't until we got back on the other side of the gate and were laughing about it that airport security showed up to ask what the heck we were thinking.

[CurvedCorner]

This is extremely embarrassing for Zimbabwe and Africa. Please pardon me for stating the obvious.

[Mark Twaine]

This would not have been news if it had happened at LAX.

[mixnmatch]

I knew I'd see alot of piggy jokes here! HA

[jws2346]

Woah, I'm some kind of glad no one was hurt seriously enough to become a fatality. They definitely need to tighten things up over there. In America all you have to do is watch out for the two legged pigs and some say they're more dangerous than the four legged variety. (especially the hijackers and suicide bombers)

[missmcgillicuddy]

Poor piggy...

[KIVPossum]

When's the bar-b-que?

[objectivist510]

The images this article creates makes me laugh

[hamchunk]

That has got to be the fastest pig on the continent if it wasn't eaten already. And that close to Harare?

[csmcmillion]

I sincerely hope Rush was not seriously injured.

[stevemarvin]

A bushpig in Zimbabwe? I thought he had to stay in the U.S. to avoid arrest for war crimes.

[noweknow]

Hey I thought you wrote LAX

[GerryS]

[JayEsbe]

Who's says the pig didn't crash into the plane? This is just typical of the pig-protecting media these days.

[Big0725]

Are you saying that the MSM in Zimbabwe has a porcine bias?

[JayEsbe]

The airplane was on the runway where it belonged. Did the pig even file a flight plan? No it did not. So saying the plane crashed into the pig, is like saying "the telephone pole crashed into the car". That's only happened once in history. I know this because it ran into me. So I am skeptical.

Yes, a pig bias. Not just there, but everywhere. Eat, or be eaten.

[Mexitli]

I'm canceling my trip to Zimbabwe.