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Former Oyo State Governor Rasheed
Ladoja, some serving Senators, members of the National Conference who were
returning to Abuja yesterday were among those onboard an Overland aircraft with
registration Number 5NBPE that had to make a quick detour after the pilot
noticed a crack on the windshield of the aircraft. The aircraft took off from
Ibadan Airport in Oyo state and was heading to Abuja when the pilot
noticed a cracked windshield as they entered into Minna, Niger
state airspace....
As a precautive measure, he quickly made a detour to the Muritala Mohammed
Airport Lagos to forestall any unfortunate incident.
The plane landed safely in Lagos and
the passengers after several hours of waiting were conveyed into another
plane which had returned from Enugu.
A statement released by Nigerian
Airspace Management Authority confirmed the incident. The statement reads in
part;
"There is no cause for alarm as the diversion was
precautionary and this conforms with the basic safety norms of the industry,”
NAMA declared
Reacting to the
development,Chairman, Airline Operators of Nigeria, Capt. Nogie Meggison,
showed gratitude to God and also said that a broken windshield would not have
caused a plane to crash.
“Let us thank God first that we did not have a
crash, which technically would not have happened with a cracked outer pane of
the aircraft. A lot of reasons can cause the crack and one of them is the
impact of take-off or landing. The pilot might have returned to Lagos because
that is where the operational headquarters of his company is located, and more
importantly, that is the only place where the minor fault can be fixed. The
pane is not an ordinary glass. It has several layers with mercury in-between.”
he said.
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