An incident involving the plane occurred at the Kwara capital around 10am on Friday, July 23.
One of the major airlines in Nigeria, Air Peace, has explained what went wrong with its Ilorin-bound B737-500 aircraft with registration number 5N-BQR from Abuja which was reported to have crashed. It explained that the aircraft in question landed safely but had a tyre burst while taxing.“This kind of sensationalism was intended to cause panic in the minds of the flying public,” it reads.
The company said the incident was duly reported to the authorities and passengers disembarked seamlessly.SaharaReporters had earlier today reported that many passengers, including some highly placed Nigerians, narrowly escaped death after an aircraft belonging to one of the major airlines crashed upon landing in Ilorin, Kwara State, from Abuja.
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