The crash occurred in Accra near Kotoka International Airport, which sits near newly built high-rise buildings and hotels and the country’s defence ministry, Al Jazeera reported.

Local television showed images of the plane lying across a road with its tail wrecked as the flight 4-member crew jumped off and received help.

At least 10 people were killed in the crash, all in vehicles on the road struck by the plane, a spokesman for the Ghana Fire Service, Billy Anaglate said, according to AFP.

The Boeing 727-200 which was travelling form Nigeria to Ghana failed to stop at the end of the runway at the landing  and it went off onto the roadside crashing into a bus.

The area is located near to El-Wak Sports Stadium and Hajj Village, where Muslims of the country stay before they journey to Mecca, according to AP. 

Ghana, a nation of more than 25 million in West Africa, has not hadn’t had any plane accidents in recent years as last air emergency the country had was in June 2006, when a TAAG Linhas Aereas De Angola flight to Sao Tome hit birds during takeoff, Al Jazeera reports. The plane landed safely and none of the 28 people onboard were injured.

In a press release by Boeing company, it offered its deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those lost as a result of an accident involving the Allied Air Cargo 727-200 Freighter in Accra Ghana.