Astrid, thanks for this forward.  Just a few minutes ago, a co-worker come
running to me rolling on the floor with irritating laughter that we have a
scam artist for a President.  Once a crook always a crook.  I know we are
all excited about the team's victory, but Yaya chartering  a plane with
almost 300 passengers to be wined and dined at the cost of the poor men and
women tax payers is really absurd.  The cost to charter, lodge and feed the
group, and pay for the penalties for the scam is all courtesy of the Gambian
tax payers and we are talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.  If Gambians
believe this is justified, then there is something that is fundamentally
wrong with the way we think.  I just hope that someone will not come here to
tell us it was the fault of the pilots.  The lunatic does not respect
anything, thus may have bribed the pilot to force land the plane for his
convenience.  Am sure we are really proud of this exposure and this comment:

"It truly was a scam," said Betty Maldonado, a spokeswoman for Peru's
aviation authority, CORPAC. "They tricked the control tower, saying they
were low on fuel."

You can scam Gambians in Gambia, but the world will show you out.  Shame on
this crook for a President.


Airliner fakes emergency so passengers can watch soccer game

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Posted: 1647 GMT (0047 HKT)

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Manage Alerts | What Is This? LIMA, Peru (AP) -- A chartered jet carrying
289 Gambian soccer fans pretended it needed to make an emergency landing so
they could watch their team compete in the FIFA Under 17 World
Championships, officials said Wednesday.

The plane, claiming to be low on fuel, landed Tuesday near the stadium in
Peru's northern coast city of Piura.

"It truly was a scam," said Betty Maldonado, a spokeswoman for Peru's
aviation authority, CORPAC. "They tricked the control tower, saying they
were low on fuel."

Emergency crews were scrambled ahead of the unscheduled landing by the
Lockhead L1011 Tri-Star, owned by Air Rum Ltd., Maldonado said.

The Air Rum plane, which she said was chartered by Gambian President Yahya
Jammeh, should have made its approach to the capital, Lima, but instead flew
directly to Piura, entering Peruvian air space "without permission."

The passengers were permitted to attend African team's 3-1 victory over
Qatar on Tuesday night, she added, but the plane remained in Piura on
Wednesday while authorities determined what penalty, if any, to levy against
the airline.

Gambian newspaper Daily Observer reported on its Web page Wednesday that the
group of fans had been delayed for a week in a hotel in the small West
African nation and were forced Friday to watch their country's victory over
Brazil on television.

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