“The pilot did the right thing by not trying to abort the take-off. He controlled the plane into the air and following all trained procedures, he brought the plane back to a safe landing”, the airline said, adding that at no time were passengers at any risk.
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) also confirmed the air return of an Aero Contractors plane from Abuja.
According to a statement from Mr Fan Ndubuoke, the General Manager, Public Affairs of the NCAA, the aircraft which took off from the MMA2 at about 3pm for Abuja from Lagos developed technical problems and made an air return as is the normal procedure.
“The aircraft with 141 passengers on board on arrival at the international wing of the MMIA Lagos had its passengers transferred to another Aero aircraft while some demanded refund of their fares”, it said.
Some of the passengers according to Mr Ndubuoke rescheduled their flights for today. Ndubuoke said the NCAA would examine what went wrong during the flight but assured the public of the agency’s commitment to passenger safety.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday interrogated former Governor of Akwa Ibom State Godswill Akpabio over allegation of financial crimes. Daily Trust gathered that Akpabio honoured the invitation by the anti-graft agency to explain allegations of looting of the state’s funds during his tenure. Sources told our correspondent that Senator Akpabio was being interrogated late yesterday evening at the Abuja head offices of the Commission. He was spotted at the EFFC office in company of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rickey Tarfa, at about 5:20pm. Akpabio’s arrest yesterday is fallout of the petition by an Abuja-based lawyer and activist, Leo Ekpenyong, who had on June 8 this year petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the EFCC, calling for Senator Akpabio’s probe and accusing him of looting. The petitioner had earlier on Wednesday adopted his petition and provided more details to the anti-graft agency on the allegations against the minority leader of People...
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