LAGOS : An Air France jet ran into a stray cow as it landed among a herd roaming the airport in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the firm said, adding that no one was hurt.

The Airbus A330 passenger liner was arriving overnight from Paris with 196 people on board when it drove into a group of cattle which had somehow strayed on to the tarmac, said Air France's spokeswoman in Nigeria, Moyo Areola.

"No passenger or crew was injured. The aircraft taxied safely to the gate on time at 04.34am local time (0334 GMT)," she said, in a statement.

"The aircraft is presently on the ground for safety reasons and will not be flown until all necessary safety precautions have been taken," she continued.

"A maintenance team is locally checking the aircraft and, in addition, an Air France mechanical team are on their way from Paris to further certify the safety of the aircraft," she said.

"Our flight for tonight, AF 875 to Paris, has been cancelled."

Airport workers were trying to round up the surviving cattle more than three hours after the accident and an investigation has been launched into how the herd breached the airport perimeter, said officials in Port Harcourt.

Passengers at Lagos airport said their flights to Port Harcourt had been delayed by three hours and that a tannoy announcement had said that at least five cows were loose in the airport and were being chased by ground crew.

Port Harcourt is the main centre of Nigeria's multi-billion-dollar oil industry and several international and domestic carriers serve its small, single-runway airport.

The incident is only the latest in a series of freak accidents in Nigeria involving stray cows.

Last month police in Lagos arrested a cow after it attacked and killed a bus driver who had stopped to urinate by the side of the road.

And 25 people were killed in May when a truck carrying traders to market swerved to avoid a cow and ploughed into a crowded cross-country bus. - AFP/de



and i thought kebabistan was crrrazy

please cow sign in so we know you are ok

I am okay. I must say that this is a particular violent faction of cow revolt that is separate from the goals of the CPG. This group is much more millitant and does not have the patience for the subtle, mostly non-violent revolt advocated by the Cow Oracle.

My condolences to the cattle who lost their lives in this accident but our Nigerian brethren and sistren need to stop being so agressive and let the takeover unfold in its due course. Our time is coming, cows, but until then we must be patient and, if at all possible, stay off of the damn airport runways.

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KebobKing said:

Is Cow writing on the Org from prison?