{"id":133649,"date":"2015-07-12T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=133649"},"modified":"2015-07-11T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T21:18:05","slug":"president-mahama-commends-pilot-for-precautionary-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/07\/president-mahama-commends-pilot-for-precautionary-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"President Mahama commends pilot for precautionary landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Mahama has commended the Ghana Armed Forces for preventing what could have been a fatal accident.<\/p>\n<p>The President and the First Lady escaped harm after the helicopter in which they were flying from Sunyani to Kumasi embarked on a &#8216;precautionary landing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened about 100 metres away from the Apatrapa Government Hospital in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The President, who was grateful for the timely intervention of the Ghana Armed Forces said &#8220;I feel great pride for our armed forces. Great intuition shown by our heli pilots. I feel so proud. And at the controls was a woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I feel great pride for our armed forces. Great intuition shown by our heli pilots. I feel so proud. And at the controls was a woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Dramani Mahama (@JDMahama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDMahama\/status\/619905618195955712\">July 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><strong>Bad weather\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Director of Public Relations at the Ghana Armed Forces stated that the pilot\u2019s decision to land the helicopter was because of \u201cbad weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a storm approaching, so in order to safeguard the first family the pilot decided to embark on a precautionary landing,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col Aggrey Quarshie added that \u201cnothing happened to the M17 helicopter and there were no injuries.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mahama has commended the Ghana Armed Forces for preventing what could have been a fatal accident. 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