Enugu Air Aircraft Off-Loading Passengers’ Baggage
An Enugu Air aircraft with registration mark 5N-BZN, which took off from Lagos Thursday evening, for Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, experienced a nose wheel fault on landing at the airport at 19:10 hours.
Upon the safe landing of the aircraft, it came to a halt on runway 08, and the emergency responders promptly swung into action to ensure the safety of passengers, crew, and equipment.
According to the airport manager, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, all the emergency team, the aerodrome rescue and fire fighters, the aviation security, and the medical crew were all on standby and did the needful.
Hence, all passengers and crew were safely evacuated and transported to the terminal building by the apron buses.
The media statement affirmed that the evacuation and relocation of passengers were completed by 19.48 hrs. Thereafter, passengers dispersed to their various homes as no one suffered injuries of any sort.
FAAN management seized the occasion to reassure air travellers of their safety at any of the terminals I managed nationwide.
It is expected that personnel of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, NSIB, would move in to conduct due diligence incident investigation to unravel the immediate and remote causes of the serious incident
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