World’s Largest Cargo Plane Lands In PH

The efforts of the Rivers State Government in making Port Harcourt the state capital an investment destination in the African continent is rapidly yielding results with the landing of the Titanic, the world largest cargo plane..

The landing of the cargo plane which took place at exactly 7.25 am on Friday at the Port Harcourt International Airport has made the city the first in the African continent which the world’s biggest chartered aircraft has landed.

The aircraft, popularly known as Antonov 255 was the second in the series of Antonov to be built by Russian Aircraft Engineers in the last two hundred years.

The first one was alleged to have been built in 1890 in Russia, while the present one was build in 1980.

The pilot, Mr Antonov Dmytro told newsmen at the airport that the flight from Calgary, Canada to Port Harcourt took 15 hours.

Mr Dmytro a Ukrainian said that he was delighted to be in Africa and Port Harcourt and described the Port Harcourt International Airport as one of the most beautiful airports that he has visited.

The Group Managing Director of Makon Nigeria Limited, the company that was responsible for the coming of the plane to Port Harcourt, Mr Makinde Abiodun Oluseyi described it as historic.

“History is actually being made here today, because you don’t see this often. It’s kind of similar to the Concorde airplane,” he said.

Mr Oluseyi said that the plane was chartered by his company to bring manufactured equipment for the gas to power project from Calgary, Canada to Nigeria.

He said that Makon group considered it faster and convenient to use the plane to move its equipment than moving them by sea.

“What we have done is we manufactured some equipments in Calgary towards the gas to power project in Nigeria.

“So looking at that, aspirations from government deadline were given, normally this equipment would have been moved it by sea, which should have taken a little longer, but because we are trying to meet and exceed the deadline given by government, decided to fly them in”, he said.