How Buhari’s plane nearly crashed in 2015 – New book gives details

…Terrified Buhari queried pilot: “What kind of landing is this?”
…Buhari visited 94 countries in Eight years


President Muhammadu Buhari’s plane nearly crashed with him and his aides in November 2015, six months after being sworn in as Nigeria’s president, a new book released in Abuja on Tuesday, has revealed.


In the book Working with Buhari: Reflections of a Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015-2023), written by Femi Adesina, Buhari is said to have been travelling to the Island of Malta to attend a meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government when the plane ran into frightful turbulence that persisted for a long time.

The report said the turbulence was so severe that when the plane eventually landed in Malta, a deeply terrified President Buhari queried the pilot: “What kind of landing is this?” and the pilot had to tender an apology to the President and the other troubled passengers.

The report said: “A presidential jet is not immune from bad weather and the accompanying turbulence (many hours of that we experienced). Neither is it spared from what aviators call wind shear (a sudden change in the direction of the wind). We had a frightful experience).

“In November 2015, we had travelled to Malta to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and it was an uneventful flight till the flight crew announced that we should get ready for landing.

Few seconds from touching the tarmac, the Boeing 737 business jet got buffeted from all sides and began to sway dangerously. On touching down, it pirouetted and gyrated like a drunken sailor; and was almost turning over.
“What kind of landing is this?”, Buhari is reported to have queried the frightened pilot, who immediately apologized to the then president.

“We have just experienced what is called wind shear, a sudden change in the direction of wind. Apologies Mr. President, and distinguished passengers,” the scared pilot replied Buhari on touching down safely.

In Chapter 21 of the new book with the caption: “Over 50 foreign trips… and a health scare”, the book lists 94 countries which Buhari visited officially during his eight-year tenure with the highest 19 trips in 2016, 18 in 2022, 16 in 2015 and 12 in 2018.


The least number of two trips undertaken by the former leader was in 2020. He made 10 trips in 2019 and five each in 2021 and 2023 before retiring to Daura, his hometown in Katsina on May 29, 2023.

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Ajala
How many countries does Donald Trump visited

What will you muss most about the previous administration

Same story Jonathan said about his own too after he left office....

One thing about the both of them is they both failed in governance but Buhari has made Jonathan like great performer while the one currently there is making some Nigerians miss Buhari already.

zlnab:
What will you muss most about the previous administration

Cheaper fuel....

The plane don later punished naija for 8 years.

I would have said why didn't it crash but thank God nigerians had the opportunity to witness his failure

Same failure of tinubu now televised

zlnab:
What will you muss most about the previous administration

i miss the fact that under pdp your minimum wage could get you through the month even buy rice

Today minimum wage no dey reach buy data a month

That plane is wicked. It would have saved Nigerians from the hardship

And then no more foreign trips again

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