IRS Airlines Fokker 100 aircraft flying from Lagos to Kaduna with 89 passengers and crew nearly crashed on the runway of Kaduna international airport yesterday morning. The aircraft had suddenly developed a hydraulic fault which forced the pilot to activate an emergency landing around 11am. The Managing Director of IRS Airline, Captain Yemi Dada said the flight crew took precautionary measures after the aircraft warned of a malfunction. He said, “On final approach to Kaduna today [Sunday] on our Flight 3390 with 89 passengers, our cockpit crew got a low hydraulic in System 1 warning and decided to take precautionary measures to ask for ground confirmation that all gears were down and locked and the aircraft landed normally after the control tower had confirmed that the gears were all down normally... The crew proceeded to land but followed procedure to disembark on the runway and not taxi in accordance with the procedure. All passengers disembarked normally and the aircraft was towed to the ramp. The maintenance crew are inspecting to confirm the issue that caused the warning to the crew.” This is the second near miss of planes in the nation’s airspace since the October 3 plane crash of Associated Airlines that killed about 15 persons in Lagos.
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