Passengers on Air Peace aircraft were yesterday evacuated after the airline’s aircraft made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The carrier in a statement yesterday said some minutes before landing: “Our captain noticed a fire warning indicator in the cockpit.

The pilots performed all safety precautionary measures and the fire indicator went off. The Captain immediately notified our Operations Control Center in Lagos at 17:37hrs.” The aircraft with number 5NBVE is said to be among the ones used for Lagos-London route that just started operations last month.

“An Air Peace flight makes emergency landing in Lagos. The flight aircraft number is 5NBVE. It landed successfully but it was an emergency landing,” one of the sources said. “The fire service and other agencies have been deployed there.

The aircraft stopped working at the spot where other aircraft will need to manoeuvre,” another source stated. The aviation sector is still grappling with the Dana Air incident, which occurred days ago when its aircraft skidded off the runway and was grounded.

The Ministry of Aviation had directed the management of Dana Airline to suspend its commercial operations over safety concerns. This directive was given by the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo in connection with an incident that happened at Murtala Muhammad Airport, Lagos State on Tuesday.

This incident raised a lot of concerns as to the fitness of Dana Air aircraft for domestic commercial operations across the country.

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