LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger forced open the emergency exit door of a plane and jumped out while it was taxiing away from the gate area at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday night, ABC 7 reported. United Express Flight 5365, operated by SkyWest, was preparing to depart LAX for Salt Lake City, Utah,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Henceforth, any passenger flying into Nigeria without carrying a negative COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test will be subjected to a fine of $3,500. This warning was contained in a circular issued to all foreign airlines operating into Nigeria since the reopening of the country’s airspace to international flights on September 5,…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 72-year-old male passenger died on an Air Peace Flight P47182 from Calabar to Abuja Flight P47182 on Friday. The deceased allegedly had a case of paraplegia due to spinal injury since 2019 was travelling for medical check-up in Abuja. He became very sick mid-flight and upon arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger had to be held down by flight crew and members of the public after trying to open an emergency exit door mid-flight. The flight from Chicago to Dallas made an emergency landing in St. Louis on Tuesday night and the man was arrested by police. Passengers on board the American Airlines…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Angry mob on Tuesday was reported to have set a conductor ablaze for stabbing a passenger to death. According to our source, the passenger who alighted from the commercial bus at five star bus- stop along Oshodi-Apapa expressway demanded for his N100 which the conucted said he do not have. “Further demand…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian airline says it’s a passenger’s fault that he fell out of a plane shortly after it landed. The unidentified man fell out of the Dana Air plane’s emergency door as it taxied shortly after landing in Abuja. The airline claims the exit couldn’t have popped open “without a conscious effort…