Private jet with VIPs misses runway into nearby bush
A private jet having with about ten persons onboard including Very Important Personalities (VIPs) has overshot the Ibadan airport runway in the Oyo State capital.
A source revealed that the incident happened on Friday around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport.
The jet with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway and skidded into the nearby bush.
Firefighters and rescue officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) were immediately deployed to the scene. But there was no death or casualty recorded.
“It was a private plane from Abuja. It landed safely but overshot the runway. There was no casualty,” a spokesperson for the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Carol Adekotujo said.
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When contacted, a spokesman for the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) Tunji Oketunmbi, confirmed the incident but said a team had been dispatched to the site for an investigation.
There has been an unprecedent rise in aviation mishaps in the past few months. In November, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, escaped death when a plane he was on board crash-landed at the same airport.
Authorities have gone as far as sacking and replacing heads of aviation agencies in the country to curtail the menace.
