IRS Aircraft Makes Emergency Landing With 89 Passengers

Another air crash was avoided yesterday as the aircraft of
a domestic airline, IRS, made an emergency landing at the
Kaduna Airport following a major problem with its hydraulic
systems.


However, all 89 passengers on board were safe. Daily Sun
gathered that the Fokker 28 aircraft which departed the
domestic terminal of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos
in the afternoon, for Kaduna, had hydraulic problem few
minutes before landing at the Kaduna airport.

It will be the
third mechanical fault incident in Nigeria following the crash
of an aircraft belonging to Associated Airline crashed on
October 3, 2013 in Lagos killing 15 persons. The other two
incidents involved Dana and Kabo airlines.

The Managing Director of IRS Airline, Yemi Dada, said the
crew of the flight had decided to make an emergency
landing at the runway of the Kaduna airport following an
alert of "a low hydraulic" on the aircraft while approaching
the airport.

Said Dada: "On final approach to Kaduna today on our
flight 3390 with 89 passengers, our cockpit crew got a low
hydraulic in system 1 warning and decided to take
precautionary measures to ask for ground confirmation that
all gears were down and locked and the aircraft landed
normally after the control tower had confirmed that the
gears were all down normally."

Dada stated that the crew had thereafter proceeded to land
but followed procedure to disembark on the runway and not
taxi in accordance with the procedure.

"All passengers disembarked normally and the aircraft was
towed to ramp," he said, adding that "the maintenance
crew are inspecting to confirm the issue that caused the
warning to the crew."
Source:The Sun