Report reaching NigerianEYE states that tanother air disaster was averted on sunday evening as a plane belonging to IRS Airline made a forceful landing in Kaduna.
The IRS Airline plane, on Sunday, had to disembark 89 passengers right on the runway in the northern Nigeria city of Kaduna, after a landing itch, the airline said in a statement.
IRS managing director, Yemi Dada, said the pilots of flight 3390 with 89 passengers onboard received a low hydraulic warning minutes before landing.
An hydraulic warning means there is a problem with landing gear, nosewheel steering, brakes, cargo doors, thrust reversers or both primary and secondary flight controls.
On final approach to Kaduna today on our flight 3390 with 89 passengers, our cockpit crew got a low hydraulic in system 1 warning and decided to take precautionary measures to ask for ground confirmation that all gears were down and locked,” he said.
Dada said the aircraft landed normally after the control tower had confirmed that the gears were all down normally.
“The crew proceeded to land but followed procedure to disembark on the runway and not taxi in accordance with the procedure,” Dada said.
All passengers disembarked normally and the aircraft was towed to ramp.
“The maintenance crew are inspecting to confirm the issue that caused the warning to the crew,” he said.
However, some of the passengers who spoke to NE said they were alarmed at the sudden drop in altitude as the plane began preparing to land in Kaduna
We have also reliably learnt that the plane was carrying passengers from Lagos to Kaduna.
“There was no casualty,”.
Efforts to get the ministry of aviation to explain what happened to the aircraft has proved abortive as aides to the minister has not responded to email inquiries.
Security has been beefed at the airport and journalists were barred from entering the airport as the time of filing this report.
The last incident in Kaduna airport was on 20 August 2010, when a Chanchangi Airlines Flight 334, operated by Boeing 737-200 5N-BIF struck the localizer antenna and landed short of the runway. Several passengers were slightly injured and the aircraft was substantially damaged. Chanchangi Airlines later suspended operations following the accident.
It can be recalled that some days ago, a chartered Associated Airlines plane crashed in Lagos seconds after take-off, killing over a 15 persons. Few days after that a Kabo airline made an emergency landing in Sokoto. This is the third time in 2 weeks the Nigerian aviation sector is having major air-related issue
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