NSIB deploys investigators to scene of Xejet aircraft incident

has begun probe into the circumstances leading to the skidding off of an Embraer 145 aircraft in the fleet of Xejet Airlines, which plunged into a grassy verge at the Lagos Airport on Saturday.

In an electronic statement, the accident probe body said :” NSIB confirms that an aircraft belonging to XeJet Airline skidded off the runway at the domestic wing of Murtala Mohammed Airport this morning. Experts in the industry are raising concerns over the spate of incidents involving aircraft skidding off the runway at airports across the country.

An event in which an aircraft veers off or overruns the runway surface during either take-off or landing is called ‘skidding off the runway.’Aero Contractors, flight NG 119 with a registered Boeing 737 aircraft 5N-BYQ from Lagos to Abuja had a total of 133 passengers on board.The same week, an aircraft operated by ValueJet Airline slipped on a taxi turn after landing and cleared off the runway at Port Harcourt airport at 3.30 local time. No damage was done to the aircraft.

Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu, the head of corporate communications, said the flight had successfully operated and landed at its destination, having arrived from the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport in Owerri.

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