Danger Averted As Super Eagles’ Flight Makes Emergency Landing In Angola

The chartered formation transporting the Super Eagles players from Polokwane backmost to Nigeria was forced to marque an exigency landing successful Angola aft the aviator announced a cracked windscreen successful the cockpit soon aft take-off from Luanda, wherever the craft had initially stopped to refuel.

Fortunately, determination was nary disposable menace to the lives of those connected board, arsenic the aviator skillfully landed the craft safely.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), successful a connection released by the Director of Communication, Dr Ademola Olajire, connected Saturday night, confirmed that the cracked windscreen of the chartered ValueJet Airline craft was transporting the Super Eagles’ delegation from Polokwane successful South Africa to Uyo for Tuesday’s FIFA World Cup qualifying lucifer against Benin Republic. This incidental successful Angola has delayed the accomplishment of the players and officials successful the Akwa Ibom State capital.

“The aforesaid craft had flown immoderate members of the delegation to Polokwane connected Thursday night, arriving successful the South African metropolis connected Friday morning,” Olajire stated.

However, aft a regular refuelling halt successful Luanda—where the level had besides stopped to refuel connected Thursday night, and wherever it had antecedently stopped en way to and from Bloemfontein for past month’s Matchday 8 brushwood betwixt the Super Eagles and the Bafana Bafana—the craft experienced a cracked windscreen mid-air aft take-off. Thankfully, the aviator managed to usher the airplane backmost to the airdrome successful Luanda safely.

ValueJet Airline, on with the applicable authorities successful the Federal Government of Nigeria, including the Hon. Minister of Aviation, the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Chief of Staff to Mr President, are moving diligently to unafraid the indispensable overflying and landing permits for different craft to alert from Lagos, prime up the delegation successful Luanda, and past transport them to Uyo.

Among the dignitaries connected committee the craft were the Chairman of the National Sports Commission, Shehu Dikko, the Senate Chairman connected Sports, Abdul Ningi, and the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Ibrahim Gusau.