AN Abuja-bound Chanchangi Airlines’ flight NCH 190 with 45 passengers on board, yesterday lost one of its twin engines shortly after take-off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. The development, it was learnt, compelled the pilot to make an air return to base for safety.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that one of the engines caught fire around Mafoluku area, as the aircraft, Boeing 727-200, climbed to attain cruising level, and this was said to have sparked off panic and confusion among the passengers, especially coming days after an American Airways’ pilot ditched his aircraft into the Hudson River in New York, USA, after losing both engines to bird strike.

Consequently, an emergency was reportedly declared by the pilot, who landed the aircraft safely for passengers’evacuation. Chanchangi Airlines’ spokesman, Mr. Olu Balogun, who confirmed the incident, said the passengers were moved into another aircraft, a Boeing 737-200, for continuation of the journey to Abuja. Balogun said a distress call was made by the pilot after take-off at 10:00 a.m. after one of the aircraft’s engines had set off a fire alarm.

He said although the alternate engine could have taken the aircraft to its destination, the pilot acted wisely by discontinuing the journey for safety reasons. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is expected to conduct an investigation into the cause of the fire, as the aircraft is currently on ground at the Lagos airport.


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its not our portion in 2009!

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is expected to conduct an investigation into the cause of the fire, as the aircraft is currently on ground at the Lagos airport.

what happen to other investigations?

It's an amazing country. How some people blindly still support it (the government), I don't know.

I posted this story expecting some commendations for the good judgement exercised by the pilot the same way people were praising the pilot who crash-landed into the Hudson River. But as usual with nairalanders we never see a positive with anything associated with Nigeria.

It's just so sad really!!

It's just so sad really!!

very sad , same way i lost my inlaw . proff. rotimi ola an eminent , brilliant surgeon on that yeye abuja last crash, and what happen to the investigation , ? i will praise when i see changes in nigerian aviation management.

The One:

I posted this story expecting some commendations for the good judgement exercised by the pilot the same way people were praising the pilot who crash-landed into the Hudson River. But as usual with nairalanders we never see a positive with anything associated with Nigeria.

It's just so sad really!!

Say that to the ones who've lost their loved ones in our yeye, untrustworthy, Gog-forsaken, accident-prone, leave-and-never-expect-to-return, cursed and hellish airline.

See your mouth, Nairalandsh never shee a poshitiv thing in Ningeri,

No we dont nand when we see, we'll holla.

Get it?

for other accident report ode remo please check www.aib.gov.ng, some people like to yab government without doing research, some concluded report are on that site and other will be loaded subsequently. secondly all these nigerian paper go dey employ people wey no dey do research and that why they can't enligthen people properly. the 727-200 is a tri engine aircraft not twin as the journalist reported .

Boeing 727 is a very old Aircraft and should be out of service now.

Chanchangi again!?

The One:

I posted this story expecting some commendations for the good judgement exercised by the pilot the same way people were praising the pilot who crash-landed into the Hudson River. But as usual with nairalanders we never see a positive with anything associated with Nigeria.

Free speech inaction

Oh dear!

@Poster

The morons like B. O. S. S. will not praise the pilot because it happened in Nigeria - dont you know? To them, Nigeria is a don for entity - they never see anything good in Nigeria- have you forgotten?

i_laugh:

@Poster

The morons like B. O. S. S. will not praise the pilot because it happened in Nigeria - dont you know? To them, Nigeria is a don for entity - they never see anything good in Nigeria- have you forgotten?

But losing you engine should not happen in mid air co ya ne?
The root problem is that we in Nigeria do not have any regards for safety, I guess its our own form of population control. What is the life expectancy back home anyways?

JosBoy4Lif:

But losing you engine should not happen in mid air co ya ne?
The root problem is that we in Nigeria do not have any regards for safety, I guess its our own form of population control. What is the life expectancy back home anyways?

Only God knows

I thought chachangi was no more
even the name sef dey scary
like cha cha cha!!
Igbo slang for "try your luck"
Nigerian aviation like everything else,playing ludo aka chandum with people's lives

I thought chachangi was no more
even the name sef dey scary
like cha cha cha!!
Igbo slang for "try your luck"
Nigerian aviation like everything else,playing ludo aka chandum with people's lives


My sister Ibiakwa, this your statement make me laugh no be small I swear, I beg make you the post this kind thing make I dey laugh forget Akata wahala

jookco:


My sister Ibiakwa, this your statement make me laugh no be small I swear, I beg make you the post this kind thing make I dey laugh forget Akata wahala

abeg laugh my dear

[b]chachacha[/b]ngi!
ndu adighi abuo

that should be their slogan

lmao

Birds enters a plane engine in America and forces it to crash/land on water - if it happens just the same way in Nigeria, people will say it can only happen in Nigeria.

These people stay away, cant even come to the country for lack of return visa- yet they speak what they know not about.

We live in both sides, I enjoy flying in Nigeria because most airlines now have brand new airplanes, so, next time y'all wanna diss Nigeria, think deper cos you might actually be making a fool of yourself.

josboy4life as much as i will agree with you that our safety culture in general as a people still live room to be desired, in the aviation sector there have been great improvement since the bad patch of 2005/2006 and it been due to hard working and passionate civil servants and other professionals who don't make noise but work. about engine failure/fires they are quite requent occurance globally. for example just the past week apart from the us airways accident,there were up 5 cases of engine fires/failures around the world. pilots are trained to deal with such stuffs and planes are designed to overcome such failures too.

i_laugh:

@Poster

The morons like B. O. S. S. will not praise the pilot because it happened in Nigeria - dont you know? To them, Nigeria is a don for entity - they never see anything good in Nigeria- have you forgotten?

Only a dumb fool like you would keep fighting lost grounds. What an idiot you are. Is it a nice thing losing an engine mid air? Say that to the family of the people who lost their lives as a result of Nigeria’s aviation inefficiency.

Stay online and keep fighting.

Idiot.

i_laugh:

Birds enters a plane engine in America and forces it to crash/land on water - if it happens just the same way in Nigeria, people will say it can only happen in Nigeria.

These people stay away, cant even come to the country for lack of return visa- yet they speak what they know not about.

We live in both sides, I enjoy flying in Nigeria because most airlines now have brand new airplanes, so, next time y'all wanna diss Nigeria, think deper cos you might actually be making a fool of yourself.

People say that for a reason because Nigeria's middle name is incompetence. There is a huge different between a natural accident and avoidable accident. You can't judiciously control the movement of a flying bird, that is a natural accident but few years ago a roaming herds of cow nearly cost hundreds of people their life when they roamed into the landing tracks of Port Harcourt airport as an aircraft is about to land. In that case, it reflect Nigeria and not a natural accident because you can control a roaming herd by making sure that fence are erected to prevent such occurence. And it's a big security laspe to have access to the run way from nearby vegetation, not just against roaming beast but against wicked people too.

But only in Nigeria, they never did, until a mishap nearly occurred. Your attitude of patriotism is see no evil, hear no evil and that to you is love of your country without knowing that you are the greatest enemy of your so called country in that regard. A parent that ignores his child deliberate absenteeism from school as show of love, will reap the reward later when that child becomes a burden.