An Overland Airways plane with registration number 5NBPE, which took off
from the Ibadan airport yesterday morning had its wing damaged as it
was approaching the Niger State airspace and had to make a detour to the
Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.
Passengers onboard were mostly National Conference delegates: they include former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja; a former President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Comrade Lanre Ogundipe; Senators Gbenga Kaka from Ogun State; Hosea Agboola from Oyo State and Demola Akinlabi, an officer in the Accountant General of the Federation’s Office; Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Prince Gbade Lana and a Federal National Population Commissioner, Abdul-Lateef Gbadamosi.
The delegates were returning to Abuja to resume plenary at the ongoing National Conference.
The incident was confirmed by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) which said that a domestic flight 1170 operated by Overland Airways with an ATR-42 aircraft diverted from Ibadan enroute Abuja to Lagos early Monday, following a reported cracked windshield.
After about 3 hours in Lagos, the passengers were moved into another Overland aircraft with registration number 5N-BPF which arrived from Enugu.
Passengers onboard were mostly National Conference delegates: they include former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja; a former President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Comrade Lanre Ogundipe; Senators Gbenga Kaka from Ogun State; Hosea Agboola from Oyo State and Demola Akinlabi, an officer in the Accountant General of the Federation’s Office; Oyo State Commissioner for Information, Prince Gbade Lana and a Federal National Population Commissioner, Abdul-Lateef Gbadamosi.
The delegates were returning to Abuja to resume plenary at the ongoing National Conference.
The incident was confirmed by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) which said that a domestic flight 1170 operated by Overland Airways with an ATR-42 aircraft diverted from Ibadan enroute Abuja to Lagos early Monday, following a reported cracked windshield.
After about 3 hours in Lagos, the passengers were moved into another Overland aircraft with registration number 5N-BPF which arrived from Enugu.
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