Fear grips passengers as Aero plane loses control

Opeyemi Oshoko |

An Aero Contractors Airline Flight 180 from Lagos to Kaduna crash landed in Abuja Friday night after it developed technical fault mid-air.

Hallmark News gathered that the airplane was carrying over 120 passengers from Lagos to Kaduna but suddenly lost altitude, 20 minutes after it departed the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, forcing the aircraft to wobble in the air for over one hour before it was eventually diverted to Abuja.

According to a passenger the pilot made an announcement that the flight would be diverted to Abuja, which was about 120 miles but most people on board were not sure that they would make it.

However the plane finally touched down in Abuja at about 9.00pm and upon landing in Abuja, the officials of the airline told the devastated passengers that the fault would be hurriedly repaired and that the plane would proceed to take them to Kaduna, their original destination.

Reacting to the incident, Aero Airline confirmed that there was depressurization in the aircraft cabin leading to the dropping of oxygen mask. And since Aero has a maintenance facility in Abuja, the flight to Kaduna was diverted to Abuja this evening to fix the problem.”