BREAKING News: Dana Airline Plane Skids Off Port Harcourt Runway, Aircraft Wing Damaged

   

A major tragedy has been averted in Nigeria as a passenger plane belonging to Dana Airlines skid off the runway of the Port Harcourt International Airport as it was landing at 7.30 pm on Tuesday, February 20, 2018.

According to an eyewitness, Layefa Walter, a Port Harcourt based oil worker, the flight skid off the runway and a wing of the airplane was damaged.



“Several people were injured. But it looks like nobody has died,” Mr. Walter told The Trent in a telephone conversation.
“Flights have been placed on hold, as we speak,” he said. “We are concerned whether Air France will be cleared to land.”

Dana Air Inaugural Flight Lands Safely In Abuja

Passengers on board Dana Air inaugural flight on Friday clap roared in jubilation when the plane landed safely at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.

Dana Air Flight 9J353 left the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, few minutes after 10 am and landed in Abuja at 11.05 packed with celebrities, journalists and some passengers.

Dana Air staff at Abuja Airport on Friday

Some of the celebrities who defied fear were Comedians, Basketmouth, Buchi, musician Harrisong, Kuba crew, among others.

Among the passengers was Mrs. Adetoun Adetokunbo, a worker with the Federal Ministry of Water and Mineral resources whose husband died in a 1991 plane crash in Saudi Arabia and who survived a plane crash in Monrovia in 1994.

“Just trust in God and everything will be fine. I believe it is God that protects us,” said the 57 year old Adetokunbo 30,000 ft above sea level.

The plane was not fully booked as many passengers remain weary after the 3 June plane crash that killed more than 150 people as it approached Lagos.