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The National Hajj Board has given indications that it would be relocating the Hajj village from its current location to another within the airport premises. The Board said this has been necessitated by the recent Allied Cargo plane crash that overshot the runway breaking into the Hajj Village. Ten people lost their lives as a result of the crash. The remains of the aircraft is still at the Hajj village which is currently located near the El-wak sports stadium. Chairman of the National Hajj Board Alhaji Alhassan Benneh told Joy Fm, �we�re looking for a new location within the airport area suitable for camping the pilgrims and build a new village for them. �We would not like to bring over a thousand people to the Hajj village for a plane to come and kill them, no, that we will not do. The new village would not be far from the airport but for now we are looking around for a place where we would be able to convey the pilgrims easily to the airport.� The Board has also however instituted measures to ensure that this year�s pilgrimage is incident free where would-be pilgrims would have a more comfortable and smooth process before leaving Ghana to the Holy land of Mecca. This year�s pilgrimage begins on October 25.