Thereafter, at 17:25 UTC, Air Peace aircraft ERJ-145LR with registration number 5N-BXF landed and was ready to take-off at 17:45 UTC with 41 souls on board and 4 crew members en-route to Abuja. The pebbles were still in place so was the pot hole. The pilot positioned and after making same complaints proceeded to take off, unfortunately as it was dark already, one of her tyres hit the pothole at high speed and the tyre burst just as the aircraft was taking off. The pilot reported the incident to the control tower and that the undercarriage wheel assembly refused to close and that he will abort the journey and return to Enugu Airport.

“The control tower advised him not to do that as the Enugu airport is not equipped to take emergency landing just same as Abuja Airport. Instead he was advised to fly to Lagos Airport where he can use the emergency landing facility there and that was what he did, he flew to Lagos airport with the under carriage wheel assembly door open without one of the tyres. The remnants of the tyre was found in several pieces on the runway when FAAN staff went to check. The airport’s ranking staff to whom the incident was reported said that the tyre should be burnt and everyone should leave the scene immediately. At about 00:30 UTC, the brought in labourers with bags of cement and covered the pothole and cleared the pebbles

There are two other deep pot holes in the runway as I am typing this, but they have not been attended yet. I has to speak out because of the conspiracy of silence that followed this incident. Now Enugu Airport was closed for major repairs on the runway on August 24 2019 for which the Federal Government budgeted N10 Billion and the work was contracted to PW by Hadi Sirika. The work was completed and flight services resumed on August 31 2020. In June 2022 a part of the taxi way was closed for serious repairs which was completed in August of the same year.

“The last major repairs on the runway was in 2009 by PW, after the work the said the runway has a lifespan of 25 years but barely 6 years after there were so much patches on the runway that labourers were engaged on regular basis to fill up pot holes at nights between the hours of 22:00UTC to 05:00UTC until the complaints from pilots was unbearable in 2019 they had to close the airport. Now the questions:

Why was PW awarded the contract again after messing up the first time?

How is this happening all over again after a 10 billion naira expenditure?

His final chilling paragraph revealed that 45 people were onboard when what should have been reported as a major aviation incident took place. That is, 45 innocent lives that could have been ended by an ongoing conspiracy of silence involving the NCAA, FAAN and at least 2 major airlines.

For reference, this is what runway debris has done in the past. To a Concorde, no less

“Air Peace is supposed to blame FAAN for the incident but were also silent about the incident. Then the conspiracy of silence and risking of innocent peoples lives. I don’t think that is acceptable. That aircraft had 45 souls on board that night. The Ibom Air before it had 78 souls (74 passengers and 4 crew members) and some others fly out with hundreds of souls on board. All not aware of the danger of using the airport. Anyone can be a victim of this negligence or rather wickedness.”

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When you put a round peg in a square hole, this is what you get. A country where the winner takes it all is highly encouraged and the issue of competency is jettisoned.

Meanwhile, Nigerians are more fixated on silencing people of SE than focusing on all these anomalies going on in the country.
SMH.

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