by Simon Ateba

At 30,000 feet above sea level, ‎up there in the sky and just five minutes after taking off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, western Nigeria, the Dana Air Flight 537 to Abuja began to bounce, shake and struggle.

This was just few minutes to four o’clock in the afternoon and this was when the over 20-year old MD-83 Dana‎ plane was filled to capacity.

The weather was great, the sun was up and turbulence was minimal when we all left Lagos excited to visit Nigeria’s ‎luxurious capital of Abuja.

I was going to Abuja to attend a bloggers’ party at ‎House Forty Three located at 43 Gana Street in Maitama, a highbrow area in Abuja. ‎The party was organised by “A Login Bloggers Network Initiative” with the theme #WetinUDeyBlogSef.

It was an event that had been in the pipeline for two months and excitement was at the very peak.

However, few minutes after taking off, the engine began scream and the plane began to go up and down. We will begin to go down and down and then up and up in za sudden switch.

Passengers on board the old plane began to pray. I wanted to sleep, but sleep failed to come and when food was served, I did not have strength to eat. ‎I was petrified.

This was in addition to the heat. It was as if the cooling system had crashed right from before the old plane took off.

A cabin crew who received a complaint from a passenger said the plane was hot because there were many people on board.

The second cabin crew told us when the plane takes off and we fly for some minutes the cooling system will be normalised.

We all pray for a safe flight, not sure we will make it to Abuja. The latest scare came few minutes to landing. The loud sound that was coming from the engine was similar to the once banned Molue buses on Lagos chaotic traffic snarls.

The noise lasted until we touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in Abuja more than an hour after we left Lagos contrary to the 55 minutes we were told for the duration of the flight. ‎

At landing, passengers began to thank their God for a miraculous flight. One passenger approached airport authorities to lodge an official complaint. ‎Another said he had been flying Dana in recent times and it has always been smooth but added: “this very plane seems to be faulty”.

‎The Dana Air flight ‎537 to Abuja from Lagos on Friday afternoon almost crashed and may crash in few months if nothing is done fast by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA.‎

You know, I have lived long enough, and got white hair by the way to know that whether here in Abuja, central Nigeria, where I am writing this, thanking God for my life or over there, wherever you’re reading it, the truth remains that if that plane is not fixed urgently, it will kill many people in just few weeks. ‎

http://ynaija.com/dana-air-flight-%e2%80%8e537-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-a-passengers-ordeal/

this is zeerious

na to avoid dana airline like plague be that o! safety first. it is cool to be alive

and december don reach ooo, plane wey dem suppose don scrap

Everything just began...
The engine began to scream...
The plane began to go up up...
Passengers began to pray...
I began to comment...
You began to read...
And we began to laugh...
Thank God for yah life sha

This should be on frontpage! Life doesn't have duplicate. If Dana Air, the Airport authority and the ministry of Aviation will not ground the said plane before this bomb explodes, the least we can do is avoid flying that particular airline and spread the news.

Front page please

Gboliwe:
This should be on frontpage! Life doesn't have duplicate. If Dana Air, the Airport authority and the ministry of Aviation will not ground the said plane before this bomb exploded, the least we can do is avoid flying that particular airline and spread the news.

Front page please

Seun
Sagamite
Mukina
Tallesty

can yhuw imagine??
Plane 20yrs old....something way don sopos turn artifact.

Hmm touching story but here goes my take on it.




The airline operatives are in a state of manu cover vilangyrl.Risking passengers life is abrotopic kutunbaba.
Signed
Obahiagbon

Another flying coffin from dubious airliners

@op thanks for the info

Anything Dana is toxic

Hmmm
I posted some time ago, it was deleted. Though in a jokingly manner. God will avert all air mishaps

All thanks to God if not for him it won't have been good at all.

I hope the authority in charge will listen and do the needful before kasala go happen.

I pray the authorities do something before a disaster happens

wow

Nigerians smoking a special brand of weed since 1922.

Nacwa

May God help us... Ncaa abeg make una do sumtin be we start the blame game

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you must have been scared out of your pants

Na wa

thank God for ur life

nawa ooo...i hope our Nigeria civil aviation will take this serious.
GOD HELP US.

Seriously ,hmmm I beg ohhh I lost a friend on the previous crash on Dana air,Indians can manage thing and them no fit do this kind thing for their country ooo and them go dey feel superior ,oshi odaa nile pako mcheew

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Is this not the same Dana that the FG gave a miraculous clean bill to fly after recently killing so many people with investigations hardly concluded?

PS: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people.'' Corruption is the biggest monster this country is facing.

yim:
I pray the authorities do something before a disaster happens

you go pray till you grow purple biabia. This country is just pathetic. God will need to come down and shake this country before the plenty shaff covering the seeds can fall off

See una life.

Dana again! Dat first mishap neva do for dem to learn their lessons?

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