Boeing412: Dana Air Almost Killed Me Yesterday

Here's my personal experience with Dana yesterday....passengers beware o!

We boarded a dana flight 9J-357(LOS-ABV) yesterday at MM2 Lagos finally @ past 5pm after an hour delay,only for the plane to taxi,rise into the air a bit and suddenly came down again!

Everyone on board thought it was the end of our sojourn here on earth!

The pilot then announced it was a technical problem and didn't want to take chances so we had to board another plane...just barely a year after the last crash....makes me wonder if anyone cares about human lives in this Country!

Dana should b grounded til they stop "managing" planes.

supomi: I was so infuriated at Dana after reading this post yesterday that I decided to contact the consumer protection directorate of the NCAA. To my greatest surprise, it so happens that there was no incident of air return involving a Dana aircraft yesterday and the post is a false alarm. I was also made to understand that air returns happen with airlines all over the world and are done in the interest of safety. I thought it made sense too; Isn't it better for a pilot to return to base if he notices a snag on the airplane than to try to manage it to his destination? Please let's make sure what we post are factual as such blatant lies or misrepresentation of facts do us more harm than good.
Haba na This guy must b ignorant to want to deceive us with such a post. Maybe he's doing PR for all those other bleeped up airlines in Nigeria at the expense of Dana. May God never let us have a bad outing that will rubbish the little good we've managed to do. Ame

supomi: well i think that is rather unfortunate but on a serious note if one is a frequent flyer u wd know that this tins happen. safety is in the hands of God and not man. Dana or no Dana, no airline can guarantee 100 percent safety in Nigeria. last year's accident was unfortunate especially as a frequent and ardent flyer and follower of Dana air, but what we would continue to do, is to keep praying against a re-occurrence. Dana air remains my most preferred airline cos most of our airlines package themselves, they all use old planes. At least we hear Dana air is expecting new aircraft so that is good news for us.

aspabay: So now taking precautions has become synonymous with "almost killed’, na wa for Nigerians oo.

wellmax: @ OP, I wonder what your problem is, your title is completely misleading.
The pilot noticed a technical fault and decided not to take any risk, since they just had a bitter experience.
My friend, he's just been careful, other pilots will still go on and nothing will happen.
So don't come here crying like they laid you for sacrifice.

Boeing412: Dana Air Almost Killed Me Yesterday

Here's my personal experience with Dana yesterday....passengers beware o!

We boarded a dana flight 9J-357(LOS-ABV) yesterday at MM2 Lagos finally @ past 5pm after an hour delay,only for the plane to taxi,rise into the air a bit and suddenly came down again!

Everyone on board thought it was the end of our sojourn here on earth!

The pilot then announced it was a technical problem and didn't want to take chances so we had to board another plane...just barely a year after the last crash....makes me wonder if anyone cares about human lives in this Country!

Dana should b grounded til they stop "managing" planes.

B737NG: I seriously doubt the veracity of this claim, it smacks of prevarication and uniformed bias. Once an aircraft is past V1(Decision Speed) and has reached Vr(Rotation Speed), it MUST take off no matter the severity of any malfunction it might be experiencing as attempting a RTO(rejected take off) at that point would almost certainly result in a runway overun.
A MD-83(the aircraft which makes up dana's fleet) needs at least 6000feet to reach rotation speed at an average weight of about 145,000 pounds. The runway it took off from, runway 18L is 9000feet; so suggesting it was able to come to a complete stop after lift off within a distance of just 3000feet is absolutely ludicrous.

byrron: So they shld have just continued and crash somewhere right going by ur professional jargons for novice like me abi? So pilots cant abort a journey even if they noticed a fault shortly after take off?
The guy gave his account as someone that boarded the plane in question and the only thing u care about is what u just wrote down there right?
Anyways, it might interest u to know that there are pilots that are in the same school of thought with u and there are pilots who will defile the rules stated below by you and do their utmost to forestall any eventuality and that pilot did just so! Remember that the op is only a passenger and not a pilot so doubting his story based on ur professional terms still beats my imagination!
So can u educate we the novice of what happened then since u doubt his story despite the fact that he gave us an info of what he encountered!

supomi: I was so infuriated at Dana after reading this post yesterday that I decided to contact the consumer protection directorate of the NCAA. To my greatest surprise, it so happens that there was no incident of air return involving a Dana aircraft yesterday and the post is a false alarm. I was also made to understand that air returns happen with airlines all over the world and are done in the interest of safety. I thought it made sense too; Isn't it better for a pilot to return to base if he notices a snag on the airplane than to try to manage it to his destination? Please let's make sure what we post are factual as such blatant lies or misrepresentation of facts do us more harm than good.
Haba na This guy must b ignorant to want to deceive us with such a post. Maybe he's doing PR for all those other bleeped up airlines in Nigeria at the expense of Dana. May God never let us have a bad outing that will rubbish the little good we've managed to do. Ame

icebeatz:

I am not a pilot but i argued this extensively with my pilot friend (not on nairaland).
At that speed, if you abort a take off, YOU ARE DOOMED cos a crash would be inevitable.
At that speed, you can gain some attitude (even with multiple engine failure) and attempt an emergency landing!!!

byrron: So they shld have just continued and crash somewhere right going by ur professional jargons for novice like me abi? So pilots cant abort a journey even if they noticed a fault shortly after take off?
The guy gave his account as someone that boarded the plane in question and the only thing u care about is what u just wrote down there right?
Anyways, it might interest u to know that there are pilots that are in the same school of thought with u and there are pilots who will defile the rules stated below by you and do their utmost to forestall any eventuality and that pilot did just so! Remember that the op is only a passenger and not a pilot so doubting his story based on ur professional terms still beats my imagination!
So can u educate we the novice of what happened then since u doubt his story despite the fact that he gave us an info of what he encountered!

Goldie20: that some scary shiit..

playah P:

Once a plane hits its rotate speed, it must take off oooh...... This story false

Boeing412: Dana Air Almost Killed Me Yesterday

Here's my personal experience with Dana yesterday....passengers beware o!

We boarded a dana flight 9J-357(LOS-ABV) yesterday at MM2 Lagos finally @ past 5pm after an hour delay,only for the plane to taxi,rise into the air a bit and suddenly came down again!

Everyone on board thought it was the end of our sojourn here on earth!

The pilot then announced it was a technical problem and didn't want to take chances so we had to board another plane...just barely a year after the last crash....makes me wonder if anyone cares about human lives in this Country!

Dana should b grounded til they stop "managing" planes.

Boeing412: Dana Air Almost Killed Me Yesterday

Here's my personal experience with Dana yesterday....passengers beware o!

We boarded a dana flight 9J-357(LOS-ABV) yesterday at MM2 Lagos finally @ past 5pm after an hour delay,only for the plane to taxi,rise into the air a bit and suddenly came down again!

Everyone on board thought it was the end of our sojourn here on earth!

The pilot then announced it was a technical problem and didn't want to take chances so we had to board another plane...just barely a year after the last crash....makes me wonder if anyone cares about human lives in this Country!

Dana should b grounded til they stop "managing" planes.

Ok, we don hear sey you enter plane

byrron: So they shld have just continued and crash somewhere right going by ur professional jargons for novice like me abi? So pilots cant abort a journey even if they noticed a fault shortly after take off?
The guy gave his account as someone that boarded the plane in question and the only thing u care about is what u just wrote down there right?
Anyways, it might interest u to know that there are pilots that are in the same school of thought with u and there are pilots who will defile the rules stated below by you and do their utmost to forestall any eventuality and that pilot did just so! Remember that the op is only a passenger and not a pilot so doubting his story based on ur professional terms still beats my imagination!
So can u educate we the novice of what happened then since u doubt his story despite the fact that he gave us an info of what he encountered!

wellmax: @ OP, I wonder what your problem is, your title is completely misleading.
The pilot noticed a technical fault and decided not to take any risk, since they just had a bitter experience.
My friend, he's just been careful, other pilots will still go on and nothing will happen.
So don't come here crying like they laid you for sacrifice.

okpara ugo:

You are sick in the head

Dreamflyin: OP dis is an affront to the aviation community. That the pilot took emergency procedures and landed safely does not mean that the plane was in grave danger, rather it goes a long way to show the professionalism of Dana Air management and pilots.
Attacking Dana brand, that values ur life and their brand by landing the aircraft after a technical glitch is so unfair.

50calibre: Thank God you survived! I hope you learn from your mistake.

Please guys, under no circumstance should you fly in Nigeria, the aircrafts are nothing short of flying coffins, they are old, poorly maintained, and poorly checked. The airlines themselves have come to the realisation that the Nigerian government places no worth on human lives.

I'd rather travel 12 hours by land than fly in nigeria