Better than to crash

Rastaramsey:


Mumu man....

I no understand why you no fi read and assimilate ordinary story....

Guy no take am personal, na joke de guy de joke.

Taiggarr:


It is ONLY the WRETCHED and UNEXPOSED that'll say this..

You can NEVER find an Otedola..a Dangote or an Adenuga say such..

Hunger don beat your life like as Cele church dey do am..

OK.

Nosainwe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp0_eSH_UKU

An aircraft passenger has revealed that the plane he boarded from Abuja to Benin city couldn’t land in Benin airport due to power outage at the airport.
The runway lights were off at the point the plane was suppose to land

A friend of mine was on that plane and described the terrifying ordeal when the Pilot attempted to risk landing the plane without the run way lights.

The passenger didn’t shy away from expressing his displeasure at the unfortunate incident while also taking swipe at the state of the nation.

and the useless pilot tried landing the plane without light in the airport, can you imagine? That really got me because the idiot thought he is carrying dull babby and not human being abi?

CARL GUSTAV von ROSEN, BIAFRA AND KAMIKAZE NIGHT FLIGHTS
Biafra The Nigerians would not allow in relief flights, including Red Cross, to help Biafra’s ten million people, one-tenth of whom were living in refugee camps. They said that such flights inhibited the ability of the Nigerian air force to carry out its mission. The only food getting through arrived on a few night flights by daredevil pilots sponsored by international relief organizations. Most of the world, preoccupied with the year’s busy agenda, regarded this war with a fair amount of indifference, not supporting the Biafran claim to nationhood but urging the Nigerians to let relief planes get through. But on July 31 the French government, despite predictions that de Gaulle’s days of foreign policy initiatives were over, departed from its allies and its own foreign policy by stating that it supported Biafra’s claim to self-determination. Aside from France, only Zambia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Gabon officially recognized Biafra. On August 2 the war became a U.S. political issue when Senator Eugene McCarthy criticized President Johnson for doing little to help and demanded that he go to the United Nations and insist on an airlift of food and medicine to Biafra. Americans responded by creating numerous aid groups. The Committee for Nigeria/Biafra Relief, which included former Peace Corps volunteers, was looking for a way to get relief into Biafra. Twenty-one leading Jewish organizations, Catholic Relief Services, and the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive were all looking for ways to help. The Red Cross hired a DC-6 from a Swiss charter company to fly in at night, but on August 10, after ten flights, the flights were suspended because of Nigerian antiaircraft fire. Then, on August 13, Carl Gustav von Rosen, landed a four-engine DC-7 on a little dirt runway in Biafra. The plane, carrying ten tons of food and medicine, had come in on a new route free from Nigerian radar-guided antiaircraft guns. Von Rosen had first become famous in a similar role in 1935 when he defied the Italian air force and managed to fly the first Red Cross air ambulance into besieged Ethiopia. In 1939, as a volunteer for the Finnish air force in the Finnish-Soviet war, he flew many bombing missions over Russia. And during World War II he flew a weekly courier plane between Stockholm and Berlin. After successfully landing in Biafra, von Rosen then went to São Tomé, the small Portuguese island off the coast of Nigeria, where warehouses of food, medicine, and ammunition were stacked up ready for Biafra. There he briefed the pilots on the air corridor he had discovered. He had flown this corridor into Biafra twice to make sure it was safe. The first time he did it in daylight, even though daylight runs were unheard of because of the risk of interception by the Nigerian air force. But von Rosen said he had to be able to examine the terrain before attempting a night run. He said that he didn’t care whether the pilots used the corridor for food or guns. “The Biafrans need both if they are to survive.” The tall Scandinavian with blue eyes and gray hair called what was happening there “a crime against humanity. . .. If the Nigerians go on shooting at relief planes, then the airlift should be shielded with an umbrella of fighter planes. Meanwhile we are going to continue flying and other airlines will join in.” He was greatly concerned by the plight of the Biafrans and on his release trom Transair at the age of sixty returned to Sweden to form an air force for Biafra. He purchased five MFI-9Bs as sporting aircraft and shipped them to France for the fitting of rocket launchers by Matra. From there they were shipped to Libreville, where they were assembled and camouflaged. They were not given markings or serials. The first strike by the light aircraft, popularly called ‘Minicons’, was on 22 May 1969 against the airfield at Port Harcourt: flying from Orlu, four aircraft claimed two MiGT 7 s and two Il-28s damaged or destroyed. On the 24th they attacked the airfield at Benin City, claiming damage to one MiG and one 11-28. On the 27 th the airfield at Enugu was the target, and on the 28th some damage was caused to the oil facilities at Port Harcourt. The Minicons transferred operations to Uli and continued to sting the Federal forces, who by now were surrounding a much contracted Biafra with a view to starving the country into submission. Von Rosen returned to Europe, where he purchased more MFI-9 aircraft from private owners, allegedly for the Abidjan Flying Club but transferring them to Biafra in October. The main task of the Minicons was to inhibit the oil industry, which they did to some effect. The hard-pressed Biafrans finally collapsed after their airstrip at Uli was overrun in 1970, severing their only remaining supply link. Despite his controversial methods, Count von Rosen would later be remembered for his efforts to modernize relief efforts to remote conflict zones. One of the notable figures assisting Count Carl Gustav von Rosen was Lynn Garrison, an ex- RCAF fighter pilot. He introduced the Count to a Canadian method of dropping bagged supplies to remote areas in Canada without losing the contents: a sack of food was placed inside a larger sack before the supply drop. When the package hit the ground, the inner sack would rupture, but the outer one kept the contents intact. With this method many tons of food were dropped to many Biafrans who would otherwise have died of starvation. Later models of the Malmö Flygindustri MFI-9 became the SAAB MFI-15 Safari, with official modifications, developed from the Biafran concept, to facilitate the dropping of food supplies from underwing hard points. Von Rosen was utilizing this type in Ogaden, Somalia when he was killed during a rebel ground assault, 13 July 1977. Correspondents who managed to get into Biafra reported extremely high morale from the Biafrans, who usually said to them, “Help us win.” The Nigerians launched ever more deadly assaults led by heavy shelling, and the Biafrans continued to hold their ground, training with sticks and fighting with an assortment of weapons acquired on the European market. But by August Biafran-held territory was only a third the size of what it had been when the people had declared their independence the year before. With hundreds of children starving to death every day, eleven thousand tons of food had piled up ready for shipment from various points. Odumegwu Ojukwu, the thirty-four-year-old head of state, a British-educated former colonel in the Nigerian army, said, “All I really ask is that the outside world look at us as human beings and not as Negroes bashing heads. If three Russian writers are imprisoned the whole world is outraged, but when thousands of Negroes are massacred . . .” The U.S. government told reporters that it was helpless to aid Biafra because it could not afford to give the undeveloped world the appearance that it was interfering in an African civil war. It was not clear if this decision took into account the impression it had given the world that it was already interfering in an Asian civil war. But it did seem true that there was a growing resentment in Africa of Western aid for Biafra. This, not surprisingly, was particularly true of Nigerians. One Nigerian officer said to a Swiss relief worker, “We don’t want your custard and your wheat. The people here need fish and garri. We can give them that, so why don’t you find some starving white people to feed.”

This big fat lie of no light in Benin Airport would have spread like a wildfire...

The passenger reported that there was no light but they can see the runway...I can see so many things around the vicinity... And I don't believe the guy used a torch to capture this...and since they were flown back to Abuja, my understanding of airport protocol is that passengers must remain in their seats until there is an instruction fir disembarkation...for the airport authority.....and with the video I saw there, someone who took the video would have disembarked...

Why would Nigerians be doing this to themselves...? Telling lies just because you want to generate traffic on your YouTube page...?

Oni kuure

What if the pilot did not have enough fuel to fly back to Abuja, and what would have happened

''The Passengers were merely cowards. Passengers must rely on the discretion of pilots at all times. Accidents occur at anytime with or without blaring/glaring flashlights''.
https://www.google.com/search?q=planes+landed+in+the+dark+in+airport+runways&client=ms-opera-mini&channel=new

Rastaramsey:


Mumu man....

I no understand why you no fi read and assimilate ordinary story....

Na typical Nigerian..
Them go read, then understand am the way they chose to understand.

Yugosng:
BIG LIE!!

It’s mind-boggling the extent to which some people go just to garner social media attention.

The air peace flight in question returned to Abuja due to weather-induced poor visibility — and NOT lack of light.

Heavy rains have been falling in Benin over the last few days. On that very same day, a Max Air flight did a flyover because of same poor visibility issues.

The pilot hovered around Benin airspace in a holding pattern until visibility was better. Then he landed.

So I don’t know how that passenger came up with his “no light” story.

For one, when seated in the fuselage and the plane has aligned with the runway for landing, you can’t see the runway. So how can you know if the runway lights are on or not?

For two, Benin airport runway lights are solar powered.

This passenger’s claim is proof that you shouldn’t believe everything you read on social media.

Don't mind them, most of them are lazy and unemployed youths. Nobody even talk about Inverter / Solar powered alternative power in place. Another person also said the Airport does not have ILS. Is ILS not supposed to be part of features of Aircraft and capability of Pilot to land using ILS in a condition of poor visibility.

Rastaramsey:


Mumu man....

I no understand why you no fi read and assimilate ordinary story....

There are powers in Benin, the guy is not wrong if you know you know...

Rastaramsey:
Nigeria jagajaga

Our mumu country don drop another masterclass....

Other countries go just dey use us laugh anytime that mum buhari go abroad for him futile meetings

Infinitely BETTER that they chose to return than try to land in poor visibility…
The SAFETY of passengers are paramount - regardless of the causation or circumstances.

Meanwhile, Nigeria is NOT the only place where airports have suffered power outages.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIP5E5NEfS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmElqyuQ-Jk

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Not even a stand-by generator.
Shame on Y'all.
Beginning from their Governor.

To your president

Why go back to Abuja? He would have simply landed in Asaba which is closer.

some will still see this as a joke, when the leaders have stolen the money meant for your airport. ..only in nigeria

How

So the plane no get full light? Or no body for the plane get touch light wey fit on for the pilot

specialmati:
his back with how to make it stop sounding like rocket science.

Explain the "how" that he came back with that stop making it sound like light is rocket science

thomaspartey:


Explain the "how" that he came back with that stop making it sound like light is rocket science

don't be to fast so that you don't end up voting old money bags with empty promises. He will unveiled it all you need to know now is that he has acquired the knowledge by going to Egypt to study how they did it

specialmati:
don't be to fast so that you don't end up voting old money bags with empty promises. He will unveiled it all you need to know now is that he has acquired the knowledge by going to Egypt to study how they did it

What has voting or not voting for old money bags got to do with what I asked you?

If he will unveil to know, how do you know that his back with how to make it stop sounding like rocket science?

If you say he has acquired the knowledge by going to Egypt to study how they did it, then explain the knowledge he got

When you say he studied, what did he study and how did he do the studying? How many days did it take him to do the studying?

thomaspartey:


What has voting or not voting for old money bags got to do with what I asked you?

If he will unveil to know, how do you know that his back with how to make it stop sounding like rocket science?

If you say he has acquired the knowledge by going to Egypt to study how they did it, then explain the knowledge he got

When you say he studied, what did he study and how did he do the studying? How many days did it take him to do the studying?

most times you guys always want to feel intellectual I said calm down while things roll when the right time comes. You are writing note for me. If I give you all the details now what will you use it to do

specialmati:
most times you guys always want to feel intellectual I said calm down while things roll when the right time comes. You are writing note for me. If I give you all the details now what will you use it to do

What has voting or not voting for old money bags got to do with what I asked you?

If he will unveil to know, how do you know that his back with how to make it stop sounding like rocket science?

If you say he has acquired the knowledge by going to Egypt to study how they did it, then explain the knowledge he got

When you say he studied, what did he study and how did he do the studying? How many days did it take him to do the studying?