ANOTHER DENT IN THE CREDIBILITY OF NIGERIA'S AIRSPACE

 

There was panic at the Kaduna Airport on Sunday when  an  IRS Airlines Fokker 100 plane with about 99 passengers and crew   made an emergency landing.The incident happened 10  days after 15 people  were killed   in  an Associated Airlines plane  crash in Lagos and nine days after a Kabo Airlines Boeing 747  aircraft also made an emergency landing in Sokoto Airport, Sokoto. The IRS plane, which departed the Murtala Mohammed Airport in  Lagos  was said to have experienced hydraulic leakage a few minutes to its  landing at the Kaduna Airport.The pilots  of the flight 3390 were said to have  requested an emergency landing from the airport’s  control tower which was immediately granted. The control tower, according to an aviation source,  called the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria which deployed fire fighters in and airport emergency response team the runway. Although the plane landed safely, it  was said to have been  towed from the runway to the airport apron after the panic-stricken   passengers had disembarked . Our airspace seems to becoming a death trap. Business would start booming for road transport operators.