A Saudi bound Kabo Air plane carrying 400 passengers from Kano made an emergency landing at the Sir Abubakar III international Airport in Sokoto early today.

Boeing 747 jumbo jet left Kano on Friday en route to Saudi Arabia had to divert to Sokoto after several of its tyres exploded immediately after it took off the Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano.

All the passengers aboard the airline have been evacuated from the plane and lodged in a hotel in the ancient city.

The incident is happening on the heels of the crash of an Embraer aircraft belonging to Associated Airlines with registration number 5N-BIT which plunged to the ground in Lagos shortly after take-off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. The 30-seater aircraft, which had 20 passengers including seven crew members on board, crashed about 9:30am killing 13

georgecso: Just heard it on the radio few minutes ago that another plane, Kabo Airline made an emergency landing in Sokoto. The flight left Kano with Hajj Pilgrims on board. Apparently, it made an emergency landing due to bursted tyres...

source. BBC hausa..

Tolexander: thank God it landed safely!

hope the tyre didn't burst due to another stowing away boy in the tyre compartment

drnoel:
No plane can land safely with a busted tire unless the tire was intact but the impact jg took on landing busted it...

A Saudi bound Kabo Air plane carrying 400 passengers from Kano made an emergency landing at the Sir Abubakar III international Airport in Sokoto early today. The plane carried 400 passengers and reportedly over 220 passengers were pilgrims.

After the emergency landing all the passengers aboard the airline have been evacuated from the plane and lodged in a hotel in the ancient city. Boeing 747 jumbo jet left Kano on Friday en route to Saudi Arabia had to divert to Sokoto after several of its tyres exploded immediately after it took off the Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano.

Kabo Air has been the best Pilgrims carrier over 3 consecutive years. With a fleet of 3 fully operational Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets, one of the biggest passenger aircrafts in the world, Kabo Air has attained an enviable status of the first and the best of its kind in Africa. For over a decade Kabo Air operated about 20 domestic flights daily linking Nigerians from both sides of Rivers Niger and Benue especially businessmen and women from Kano through which business transaction flourished, catapulting Kano people to new level in modern business.

seunlayi: I wonder o, a plane can not land safely with busted tyres.