AN air disaster was, on Saturday, averted in Nigeria, as a Qatar Airways plane carrying 248 passengers on board from Doha in the United Arab Emirates made an emergency landing at the Lagos airport.
The pilot of the flight QR 592 was said to have contacted the control tower in Lagos while mid-air that the plane had suffered a burst tyre mid-air, a situation that made it to develop a landing gear problem and, therefore, demanded for emergency landing clearance.
According to information gathered, the aircraft had a burst rear tyre, which affected the functioning of the landing equipment, forcing the aircraft to hover sometime in the airspace before it made an emergency landing at the cargo axis of the airport.
Scores of firefighters from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigerian (FAAN), Lagos State fire service trucks and fire trucks belonging to Julius Berger, as well as ambulance vehicles, were already mobilised at the cargo unit of the airport in preparation for the aircraft landing.
Even, officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency were fully mobilised to the airport in the event of a possible crash or emergency.
The aircraft made a technical landing at the cargo section of the Lagos international airport at about 2.00p.m. with most of the passengers who were seriously disturbed making frantic efforts to contact their family members. TribuneNigeria
Thank God no deaths was recorded.
We've had enough deaths this year already
enough is enough....