Abuja plane crash: Residents recount near-death experience
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The tranquility that characterises Nassau Village in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was on Sunday disturbed when a jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crash landed in the area.
Noise from aircraft is not strange to residents of the village, being one of the settlements that bordered the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport.
But the Sunday experience was not only strange, it was a near-death experience for them.
It started with a loud and unusual noise from the ill-fated aircraft, followed by a loud explosion and then billows of thick smoke and fire.
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Published 22 February 2021
Residents of the Nassau Village in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, said they thought a bomb blast had occurred when they heard a deafening sound on Sunday morning.
On rushing to the site, they discovered that a jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crash landed in the area.
The jet en route Minna in Niger State crashed close to the runway of the Abuja airport after reporting engine failure.
One of the residents, who witnessed the accident, Ebube Onyedi, told our correspondents that they initially took the loud sound that characterised the crash for a bomb blast.
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by SaharaReporters, New York
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Adeyemi, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, said a decision on the issue would be announced next week.
The Federal Government’s plan may not be unconnected with pressures on it to stop further spread of coronavirus by banning flights from nations with high rates of the virus.