Posts tagged as: Runway

52 Passengers  Escape Death As Another Aircraft Skids Off Runway At Lagos Airport

LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An aircraft, Embraer 145, belonging to a premium services provider Xejet Airlines has skidded off the runway and plunged into the grass areas at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos State. The aircraft with 52 passengers and the crew members on board had departed Abuja before the incident at the runway […]

VIPs Escape Death As Private Jet Skids Into Nearby Bush In Ibadan Airport

LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A private jet having about 10 persons onboard including Very Important Personalities (VIPs) has overshot the Ibadan airport runway in the Oyo State capital. An impeccable source said the incident happened on Friday around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. The jet with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway and skidded […]

Passengers Escape Death As Pilot Lands Plane On Frozen River After Mistaking It For A Runway

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 […]

Flights Suspended As Aero Contractor  Aircraft Nose-Stucked  At Abuja Airport Runway 

LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major accident was averted on Sunday after a Boeing 737 aircraft with the registration number: 5N-BYQ belonging to Aero Contractors nose-stucked after landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja. The serious incident occured at about 10:47am after the plane, which departed the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos in the […]

Ethiopian Airlines Gets Stuck In Mud After Skidding Off Runway In Lagos Airport

LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ethiopian Cargor Airlines planes slightly skidded off the taxiway after landing. According to airport officials, a plane arriving at Lagos from Addis Ababa had landed and was at taxiing speed when it slid into the grass.   The crews and airport staff were seen trying to make the left landing gear free […]

Air Peace Plane Skid Off Of Runway, Lands Inside Bush

LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An aircraft belonging to Air Peace on Saturday overshot the runway and slid into the bush at the Port Harcourt international airport in Rivers state. A passenger on board was quoted to have said that the incident occurred around 4pm when the plane was about to land at the airport, despite the […]

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