Angry passengers yesterday evening Thursday September 26th blocked the
runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, preventing planes
from taking-off or landing.
The passengers, who disembarked from an Arik Air flight, blocked the Abuja
runway because the flight they took from Abuja to Calabar was not allowed to
land in Calabar around 5.30pm for safety reasons - the runway lightening
was poor, forcing the pilot to return the passengers to Abuja.
The passengers now felt the best way to express their anger was to prevent
other planes from taking off or landing at the Abuja airport. Continue...
Arik Air spokesperson, Mr. Adebanji Ola, said that it was not the airline's
fault that the Calabar airport was closed by the time the flight from Abuja got
there.
He said,
“The flight was delayed because there was Very Important Personality
movement and there was also some weather issues, it is not the fault
of the airline that the plane could not land there. We are amazed that
despite the security at the Abuja airport, passengers were still able to
hijack the aircraft and hold other planes to ransom, that should not be
the case.”
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