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A BRITISH AIRWAYS plane crashed into a building at Johannesburg Airport in South Africa overnight.
The Boeing 747-400 en route for London Heathrow Airport took a runway that was too narrow for the plane, said South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) spokeswoman Phindiwe Gwebu.
“This resulted in the aircraft’s right-hand wing impacting the office building,” she said.
Runway
The control tower “told them to take one taxiway and they took another one. They took a wrong one,” said Gwebu.
Four people inside the building were lightly injured, but the 185 passengers and 17 crew on board were unharmed during the late-night accident, according to the CAA.
“Four ground-handling employees who were in the building at the time experienced minor injuries,” Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) said in a statement.
A photo taken by a passenger from the cabin, shown on Sky News, showed the aircraft’s giant wing wedged into a quarter of the length of the small building.
The airline tweeted this message in relation to the incident:
(Twitter/@British_Airways)
Additional reporting - © AFP, 2013
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3 ios apps, 1 for android being a football app, and instagram! Wow its 2010 again!….not a very broad appeal. I’m going to go all out and say this selection is shite! Sorry fella, you tried.
I agree, show us some android! Or at least apps that are crossed on both platforms :)
A few worth while Android apps for ya, first of all
UTorrent: download all the torrents you do on your home computer except straight to your smartphone. FREE
SwiftKey:is also amazing at the start I thought I would never actually use it but it saves so much time now I couldn’t use a phone without it. NOT FREE
Accatracker:for those Android fans who like gambling and doing accumulators this thing is amazing it was already on ios but it’s now on android. FREE
Dropbox:is a must have for students and anyone who likes to work at home and needs files close to them all the time. FREE
And last but not least Zedge: have pretty much any ringtone or wallpaper you like and even if you don’t want a new one u mite just get an idea from the favorites list. FREE
I am shocked and appalled to learn that the author of the article has the…the….the CHEEK to not consider what type of phone Marcoop uses, or even what kind of apps Marcoop specifically wants to see in a list like this.
’5 worth downloading apps’is the title.. They could’ve done 3 apps specific to each platform and 2 that are available across all three platforms..I.e broadness..just a suggestion thats all, wouldn’t get too hung up on it Rory..
Try Pirate Legends on iOS. It’s free, made in Ireland and awesome :) :)
The vast majority of smartphone users in this country have phones running Android. Giving one Android app out of five is odd to say the least.
Would have to agree – far too iPhone based, little of interest here for me.
Aah I’m gone off apps
There an app for that.
I came in here all excited and I’m sloping off disheartened.
One review and I don’t even like soccer, bad form!
Anything with in app purchase instant delete. Should be banned €70 for level unlock so some kid gets duped into buying on parents phone should be illegal.
You can turn off in app purchases quite easily though
Yeah you should totally be able to make in game purchases! Just turn off in game purchases or use a PIN number if you don’t want your kids buying stuff. It’s not that hard to control what you buy.
Android users = Bitter people
They can’t go without commenting on the iPhone or ios in a badway, just pettiness at this stage
Aaron
Android users : hoping to get an iPhone for Xmas !!!
Nonsense article.
“All hail the iPhone, King of all smartphones!”
41mega pixel Lumia ….. tempted to delve into windows 8 mobile for something like that
#shit
Owen’s contribution is certainly not over elaborate and some would say succinct.
Whilst he conveys his immediate impressions of the article/content/contributor in his brief analysis, the reader is left hungry for more.
Once again the journal and windows phone, did anyone do any research here?
Android users download ingress.
We are not all apple fanboys
This article is too mainstream for me.
I love Orkland Castle Defence for Android. Level 1 free then purchase the next 6 levels for 0.75c. NO in game purchases. Brilliant game.
Get clumsy ninja…great fun and free :)
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