From Web India 123.com:-
Accident in runway shuts down airport in Aceh:-
January 04, 2005 12:11:49 PM IST
The airport in Banda Aceh in Indonesia was closed early on Tuesday after a plane carrying supplies hit a cow on the runway.
The military say the engine and the landing gear are badly damaged and without heavy lifting gear, of which there is none, the airport remains closed to fixed wing aircraft. Pilots fear the airport may not be open for the rest of the day and aid, sitting in the provincial town of Medan, 500 kms south, will have to be moved by helicopter.
The airport is vital to supply aid to some of the remotest areas of Indonesia, which have been among the worst hit. Military aircraft from Indonesia, the US, Australia, and Malaysia were taking medicine, water and food from Banda Aceh to isolated parts of the province, closes to the epicentre of the earthquake that caused the tsunami waves.
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