An Aero Contractors flight from
Sokoto to Abuja made an emergency landing on Wednesday due to a faulty landing
gear.
The Boeing 737/500 aircraft was
said to have touched down at the Sultan Abubakar III Airport, Sokoto, at about
2:45pm while the passengers were asked to disembark and wait at the departure
lounge for further briefing.
Ismail Sani, one of the
passengers, said the aircraft was unstable halfway into its journey, prompting
the pilot to announce that the landing gear could not return after series of
noise from the engines.
Sani, a journalist based in
Keffi, Nasarawa state, said the passengers and the crew members were alarmed
over the incident.
He said after the plane had made
the emergency landing, “the pilot thereafter came to the departure lounge to
announce that the engineering team advised him to run a check on the gear and
that he did so, but the test failed, urging the passengers to make alternative
flight arrangements”.
The pilot, whose name could not
be ascertained, was said to have insisted that it was a minor fault and to
press home his point, he said he was flying the aircraft back to Abuja but without
passengers.
Some of the passengers said the
airline did not make another flight arrangement for them, saying Aero only
refunded their money for the flight tickets.
Aircraft belonging to Dana and
Arik airlines made similar emergency landing in recent weeks, in Lagos and
Ghana, respectively.
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