₦airaland Forum

All early flights to Nnamdi Aziiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, have been cancelled over overshooting of the runway by a chartered aircraft.

A Gulfstream aircraft belonging to Skybird Airline with the registration number 5N-BOD overshot the runway on Wednesday night, thereby leading to the closure of the runway by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA).

As of the time of filing this report, the reason for overshooting the runway by the aircraft was unknown and the airport authorities were still battling to remove the aircraft from the runway.

However, passengers who had hoped to depart Lagos for Abuja were stranded at the airport, as all flights into the Federal Capital Territory were cancelled.

Hordes of passengers were seen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Two (MMA2), Lagos and the General Aviation Terminal (GAT).

Virtually all the local airlines have early-morning flights out of Lagos while Dana Air introduced 7am flight out of Abuja to Lagos just on Monday.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/09/13/breaking-all-flights-abuja-airport-cancelled-after-plane-overshoots-runway

an airport of a capital of a country having just one runway

FortifiedCity, no matter what you do, ensure your kids have dual or trio citizenship. Do not, I repeat FortifiedCity, Do not let them be only Nigerians

R

The dilemma of a single runway airport design so outdated and limited

iammo:
an airport of a capital of a country having just one runway

hmm...

FortifiedCity:


FortifiedCity, no matter what you do, ensure your kids have dual or trio citizenship. Do not, I repeat FortifiedCity, Do not let them be only Nigerians

This really interesting. In-fact, one of the best things i have ever gained on this post this morning.

oloriooko:
The dilemma of a single runway airport design so outdated and limited

this is Nigeria.