LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For many people, flying is a very exciting and new world experience. People love the feeling of flying in the sky, and it has become a part of their everyday life. But have you ever wondered what would happen if the roof of the plane suddenly flies off at a height of…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A plane carrying Gambia’s national soccer team made an emergency landing after a sudden loss of oxygen during their flight to compete in the Africa Cup of Nations tournament. A chartered flight Wednesday carrying the “Scorpions” returned to Gambia’s capital Banjul after being airborne for nine minutes when the crew realized there…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane carrying nearly 400 people burst into a ball of fire at a Tokyo airport Tuesday when it collided with a coast guard jet — killing at least five crew members taking aid to victims of a deadly earthquake. Horrifying video showed the Japan Airlines plane suddenly burst into flames…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane on Thursday landed on cracking ice on a notorious Russian river due to a pilot’s mistake. Thirty passengers and four crew were safely evacuated on foot from the Polar Airlines An-24 propeller plane in Yakutia, Siberia‘s coldest region. The pilot mistook the frozen Kolyma River for a small landing strip…
By Yushau Shuaib LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-“Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your Captain speaking. We regret to announce that because of a technical problem, we have to return to Paris for safety and security.”_ That was the announcement made by the Captain of the Abuja-bound Air France flight on Monday, October 23, 2023, that had…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s doomed private plane showed no signs of distress until a sudden drop 30 seconds before the deadly crash in Russia — amid speculation that the rogue warlord’s plane may have been downed by a bomb hidden in a crate of wine. The Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet, with…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iván Andaur, 56, was piloting the plane from Miami, Florida to Santiago, Chile on Sunday night when he tragically collapse and died leaving the plane pilotless. He collapsed and died in the bathroom of a LATAM 787 Dreamliner he was flying forcing his two co-pilots to make an emergency landing. Iván Andaur,…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-EasyJet left 19 passengers on the runway after their flight from Lanzarote to Liverpool became too heavy to take off, according to a report. In a rare incident, British airline EasyJet left 19 passengers on the runway as the flight reportedly became ‘too heavy’ to take off. According to the report, the…