Dana Air: Another disaster averted
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A Dana aircraft overshot the runway while landing at Port Harcourt international airport on Tuesday.
An aircraft overshoots the runway when it moves past a specified point unintentionally.
The Cable reports that the aircraft, which reportedly flew in from Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport, Abuja, ended up in the bush.
Passengers were reportedly evacuated from the bush.
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) confirmed the development, saying no one sustained injury in the incident.
“A Dana aircraft numbered 9J0363, flying from Abuja to Port Harcourt airport has overshot the Port Harcourt runway,” Henrietta Yakubu, spokeswoman of the agency, said in a statement.
“The incident was suspected to have been caused by a heavy rain, which was accompanied by strong wind and storm in Port Harcourt.
“No casualty was recorded, as all passengers on board were safely evacuated.”
Recall that on 3 June 2012, a Dana Air aircraft, which took off from Abuja, crashed into a furniture works and printing press building in the Iju-Ishaga neighbourhood of Lagos, killing all 153 people on board and 10 more on the ground.
The aircraft was a twin-engined McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registered in Nigeria as 5N-RAM. And on 26th January 2018, another commercial aircraft belonging to Dana Air nearly crashed after hitting the fence of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The near-miss in Port-Harcourt on Tuesday is the latest in the series of accidents involving Dana Airline
