Plane with 500 pilgrims crash lands in Kano

A Yola bound Boeing 747 Jumbo jet belonging to Max Air yesterday had a burst tyre during an emergency landing in Kano, with 500 passengers returning from Hajj escaping death. The plane, with registration No 5N-DBM, narrowly escaped crashing while landing at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, but it was learnt that none of the passengers was injured.

An eyewitness told Daily Trust that the Yola bound plane made an emergency landing by 3.00am local time adding that the pilot manoeuvred the plane to a halt. Daily Trust gathered that immediately the passenger alighted from the plane, they prostrated at the tarmac to show their appreciation to Allah for surviving the incident.

When contacted, Media Consultant to the Airline, Dahiru Ibrahim, confirmed the incident. He said, “the aircraft lost four tyres while landing at Malam Aminu Kano International Airport but I want to state clearly that it was not an emergency landing as was speculated in some quarters.The pilot decided to land at the Kano airport because airplanes cannot land at night at Yola Airport where passengers would have been flown to their base in Yola in a broad day light.”