NO fewer than 550 returning Niger State pilgrims who performed this year’s hajj in Saudi Arabia escaped death at the Minna International airport when the airline that brought them back to the country
almost crash-landed.It was learnt that the aircraft a Boeing 744 with registration number 5N/ DBK carrying not less than 550 passengers developed a technical fault resulting in its forceful landing, damaging one of the aircraft’s four engines.
An eyewitness said most of the passengers were in shock as they rushed out of the plane, wondering what had transpired. No one died as a result of the incident. “The fire that would have followed would have spread to all parts of the airport because we don’t have fire fighting vehicles in this airport” the source, a senior official of the airport told PUNCH.
The Public Relations Officer of the state Pilgrims Welfare Board, Hassana Isah, when contacted confirmed the story but did not give further details.
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