Borno State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Umar Usman Kadafur, and over 100 other air passengers escaped death when an Abuja-bound Max Air flight caught fire mid-air.
Gatekeepers News reports that the plane had to make an emergency landing when one of its engines caught fire ten minutes after it took off from Maiduguri airport in Borno state.
Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency publication focused on Lake Chad region revealed that preliminary reports suggest that one of the aircraft’s engines developed a fault after a bird strike.
The bird strike sparked a fire in the aircraft’s engine and the pilot had to divert the aircraft back to Maiduguri airport.
According to reports; all the passengers and crew members were unhurt and the airliner
dispatched a replacement aircraft to Maiduguri to lift the stranded passengers.
