Its only in Nigeria I hear of this weird news. How the hell can a plane circle for two good hours and not land, you see why Fashola need to build a $600 million airport with a Cat III runway, that way and next time you guys don't have to wait in the air for tow hours even if its bad weather. Planes land very well in bad weather.

@Bababuff, I don't know how its done in Nigeria, Control tower communicates Departing and Landing clearances only, its the decision of the pilot to go around if he failed to come in the first time. In some really busy airports, because of traffic patterns, he would contact Regional Approach (TRACON) that he missed his approach and would request a go-around. Approach would vector him out, align him into traffic radar to land again. Again if he wanted to return to Abuja, like its done here, he doesn't need the towers permission. That's why after takeoff they tell you contact departure. Regional departure is the who will initiate a flight plan since he does not have an open flight plan.

Clearance delivery ===> Ground control ===> Tower control ===> Regional departures (TRACON)  ===en route control center. You get the idea.

Dolemite said:

Nigerians fear too damn much, the plane couldn't land, what's the problem? You just sit there and chill, no need to panic, you're not going to die, it's not like the plane had any fault.

lol,  Most folks have this idea that if the plane has to keep going round and round for too long, the engine will fashi. 

Glad nobody was hurt

"When we got down, my brother, I was shaken. Imagine how this country could have lost between 90 to 100 prominent people in an air crash. It could have been the worst in the history of this country.

Nonsense talk, prominent people? gimme a break,  worst in the history? go and read your history, some people just dont change,  I bet he wasnt prominent when he was sweating in the plane

uhh, ?

so this thread is stil existin?