According to him, the helicopter, which nearly crashed through the roof of the school, forced school authorities to order pupils out of their classrooms\u00a0\u00a0as they were engaged in some extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n
The helicopter in the process, landed on the school\u2019s \u00a0compound around midday.<\/p>\n Franklin says attempts by some external engineers to fix the fault for the helicopter to move away failed on three occasions.<\/p>\n It is unclear yet where the Helicopter was coming from, but a source at the West African Helicopters, owners and operators of the aircraft, told Citi News<\/strong> it set off from Bogoso in the Western Region, and was\u00a0headed for\u00a0the Kotoka International Airport.<\/p>\n Franklin says the distance between the helicopter and school\u2019s fence wall is just two meters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Managing Director of West African Helicopters who was tight-lipped and gave his name as Oly\u00a0Arensen, said the aircraft forced-landed because they were taking precautionary measures after one of lights on the dashboard started blinking.<\/p>\n According to him, the fifteen year old aircraft, has been flying for thirty minutes today [Wednesday] before the incident. But his claim may be inaccurate since a\u00a0company source told Citi News<\/strong> that it normally\u00a0takes them one-hour and thirty minutes to fly from Bogoso to Accra.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A\u00a0forced landing\u00a0is a landing made\u00a0under factors outside the pilot’s control, such as the failure of engines, systems, components or weather which makes continued flight impossible.<\/p>\n However the term also means a landing that has been forced by interception.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n Photos by Godwin A. Allotey![\"helipcopter](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/helipcopter-at-abelenkpe-school-7.jpg\")
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