The Case Of A Plane Landing On A Highway In Kenya Ended Up Revealing How U.S. Forces Are Transported In Africa

Plane That Landed On African Highway Carrying U.S. Troops Gets Dismantled -- Washington Post

When a cargo plane landed on a Ugandan highway last month carrying U.S. troops, it grabbed attention and shed light on the low-key way in which American forces travel through Africa to carry out missions. But there’s more to the story: The aircraft will be dismantled, likely because it can’t fly from the same location again.



A news video of the plane — a CASA-212 aircraft, as the website Medium pointed out — shows it surrounded by Ugandan civilians after it made an emergency landing July 18. It will be hauled back “to its point of origin,” said Army Sgt. 1st Class Jessica Espinosa, a spokeswoman for U.S. Africa Command. It flew of out of Entebbe International Airport in Uganda, according to this news account:



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My Comment: Now we know how U.S. soldiers are sometimes transported in Africa to carry out missions.