{"id":7346,"date":"2014-03-20T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2014-03-20T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T12:10:57","slug":"kumasi-airport-gets-instrument-landing-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=7346","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi airport gets Instrument Landing System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kumasi-airpot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7348\" alt=\"kumasi airpot\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kumasi-airpot.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a>Minister of transport Dzifa Attivor has assured domestic flyers that cancellation of flights to the Kumasi airport during the harmattan season will be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Its follows the commissioning of an Instrument Landing System (ILS) at the Kumasi airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The multifaceted equipment provides precision guidance to an\u00a0aircraft approaching and landing on a runway.<\/p>\n<p>The 800,000 Euro project was solely funded by the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority\u2019s internally generated funds.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Dzifa Attivor says the installation of the equipment is a clear manifestation of government\u2019s commitment to transform the Kumasi airport and other regional airports in the country to meet international standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2018the installation of the ILS at the Kumasi Airport is a clear manifestation of the government and it&#8217;s allied aviation agencies&#8217; commitment in collaborating, to transform the Kumasi airport and other regional airports in the country to meet international standards\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Dzifa Attivor said the installation of the equipment will go a long way to improve significantly the operations of aircrafts to the Kumasi airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to assure the general public that with this instrument landing system in place, the agonizing moment of flight cancellations in the morning or during the harmattan seasons will be a thing of the past&#8221;, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Director General of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority Air Cdre Kwame Mamphey said his outfit will continue to implement programs and projects that will maintain the country&#8217;s air safety records.<\/p>\n<p>He said the facility was built with funds generated internally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 Vivian Kai Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of transport Dzifa Attivor has assured domestic flyers that cancellation of flights to the Kumasi airport during the harmattan season will be a thing of the past. Its follows the commissioning of an Instrument Landing System (ILS) at the Kumasi airport. The multifaceted equipment provides precision guidance to an\u00a0aircraft approaching and landing on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[23,4],"class_list":["post-7346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-kwesi-annin","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}