The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) says there is no truth in a media report that a Max Airline plane carrying over 500 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia to Nigeria crash-landed at Minna International Airport on Saturday.

The Chairman of the commission, Alhaji Abdullahi Muhammad, said this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) from Makkah, Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

He said immediately the story filtered into the public domain, the commission conducted its findings into the purported development by getting in touch with the management of the airline concerned and interviewed some passengers that boarded the said plane.

“The result of our findings showed that there is no such thing as emergency landing or crash landing of any plane in Minna involving pilgrims being transported back to Nigeria by the commission.

“Some of the passengers we talked with on the issue even said they were hearing the purported news for the first time and that there was no such development as far as they were concerned,” Muhammad said.

The management of Max Air, which also denied the report, however, said there was heavy torrential rain with unstable wind when the plane was landing at the airport.

Capt. Ibrahim Dili, Director of Flight Operations of the airline, while reacting to the report, said that at the time of arrival, there was heavy torrential rain with unstable winds.

“The instrument landing system at the airport was epileptic with unreliable signals.

“Our pilots executed an approach, using their wealth of experience, knowledge of the terrain and environment to a safe landing and stop on the runway during which one of engines slightly brushed the runway.”

The slight brush of the engine, Dili said, was due to the complex landing maneuvers occasioned by the strong downdraft, stressing that the aircraft did not crash or skid off.

According to him, the aircraft taxied safely to the airport terminal and passengers disembarked without any problem.

He, however, said that all required reports of the “minor incident” had been filled.

Dili said officials of the Nigerian Civil Aviation (NCAA) and Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) inspected the aircraft and the runway and were satisfied with the outcome of their inspection.

NAN recalls that some dailies had earlier reported that a plane conveying about 600 pilgrims in the 2019 pilgrimage from Saudi Arabia crash-landed at the Minna International Airport.

It said that the aircraft was said to have developed technical fault in one of its four engines and skidded off the runway while approaching the airport.

The report, however, said no pilgrim was injured or death recorded in the incident.

Meanwhile, a check on the command and control centre of NAHCON showed that the commission has so far conducted 80 flights with 38,807 pilgrims transported back to Nigeria as at Sept. 7.

The centre disclosed that Max Air, with registration no. 2098 departed Jeddah to Kano via Katsina with 529 pilgrims.

https://www.news9naija.com.ng/2019/09/08/no-plane-carrying-muslim-pilgrims-crash-landed-in-minna-nahcon/

Simplyleo:
Actually the news of the crash was reported by a media outlet from those delusional people hoping it comes true.

Same way they had been reporting of Buhari's death when he was receiving treatment abroad hoping he actually die only to come up with a cloning fable when it later down on them that their prayers did not go beyond their snouts.

Typical.... Always blame some perceived enemies.. How exactly is dis news related to PMB?

Ok na. Welcome back home

Bloggers and fake news.

Okay

Actually the news of the crash was reported by a media outlet from those delusional people hoping it comes true.

Same way they had been reporting of Buhari's death when he was receiving treatment abroad hoping he actually die only to come up with a cloning fable when it later down on them that their prayers did not go beyond their snouts.

Fake news!

Linda Ikeji comes to mind whenever you think of fake news such as this. Nairaland will always show you both side of the story and you'll see the corrected report.

Ook

Bad Belle people

Fake news and bloggers are like South Africa and Xenophobic

Who kook this one na!

Fake news everywhere

Ha ha ha follow me laugh.

You serve and cooperate with Devi in Nigeria to loot, kill, kidnap and all evil imaginable including drugs but go to umrah to stone the same deviland believe he will not retaliate.

Most of them got the money they use to travel through ritual from the same devil they went to stone

Every year satan make he kill some of them yet they refuse to learn

There was no crash land.
The plane only slipped past the runway but it was brought under control.

But I heard about this crash plane landing in Niger state on faaji FM News this morning. so the journalist are lying or the Nahcon

OH JESUS

danjumakolo:
There was no crash land.
The plane only slipped past the runway but it was brought under control.

Engine brushed the runway this write up said in the midst of torrential rain and strong winds.

where are the shiite ibo.

“The instrument landing system at the airport was epileptic with unreliable signals.

“Our pilots executed an approach, using their wealth of experience, knowledge of the terrain and environment to a safe landing and stop on the runway during which one of engines slightly brushed the runway.”

The slight brush of the engine, Dili said, was due to the complex landing maneuvers occasioned by the strong downdraft, stressing that the aircraft did not crash or skid off.

https://www.news9naija.com.ng/2019/09/08/no-plane-carrying-muslim-pilgrims-crash-landed-in-minna-nahcon/[/quote]
What could this statement mean if the management is outrightly denying any such incident

Another fake news from village people to nairaland

We don't even know which to believe again, yesterday plan crash, today no crash.


sometimes bloggers deserve Thunder from sango and amadioha

otokx:


Engine brushed the runway this write up said in the midst of torrential rain and strong winds.

There was an initial rain which made the runway kinda slippery (frictionless) and subsequently breaking the law of inertia

Obviously, there was an incidence.
The pilots report says it all.poor facilities at the airport, heavy rain, failed engine, etc
What else, do we want to hear?
Thank God it didn't crashed and they disembarked safely.

danjumakolo:


There was an initial rain which made the runway kinda slippery (frictionless) and subsequently breaking the law of inertia

There was an incident and it should be investigated and not swept under the carpet.