Davido Uncle Escape Air Crash As Private Jet Catches Fire

The Osun State Governor, Chief Ademola Adeleke, has escaped a horrific fate, according to a study by Leadership.

By a changeable of luck, what could person been a nationalist calamity was averted connected Tuesday, September 5, 2023 erstwhile the backstage pitchy owned by billionaire businessman, Chief Adedeji Adeleke, who is the Governor's brother, caught occurrence astatine take-off constituent astatine the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) successful Lagos, aggregate sources acquainted with the incidental told LEADERSHIP on Saturday.

Chief Adeleke is the begetter of Afrobeat musician, David Adeleke, popularly known arsenic Davido. He is besides the member of the Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke.

Chief Adeleke owns the Bombadier Global Express 6000 progressive successful the incident. The pitchy is utilized arsenic a household level by the Adelekes.

The incidental happened astatine the home helping of the Airport astatine astir 9am connected the fateful time erstwhile the pitchy was astir to instrumentality disconnected from Lagos to Abuja.

However, the incidental wasn’t formally communicated to the acrophobic Aviation regulatory authorities, a improvement that is against modular protocol.

Reports indicated that the jet, with Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke, connected committee and his apical aides astatine the clip of the incident, had taxied to the extremity of the runway, soon earlier departure, erstwhile a large explosion was heard from the motor of the jet, causing it to abort take-off immediately.

“No deaths oregon injuries were reported, and different passengers successful the level arsenic of the clip of the incidental could not beryllium ascertained,” a root privy to the improvement told our correspondent.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the pitchy had been parked astatine the Executive Jet hanger of the Airport earlier it was deployed connected September 5.

Multiple sources confided successful LEADERSHIP that adjacent though determination were no injuries oregon deaths recorded from the incident, however, each parties including the Airport authorities, the Osun State authorities and the owners of the backstage hanger person been hopeless to guarantee that the news of the incidental doesn’t get to the nationalist domain.

Attempts by LEADERSHIP to talk with Governor Adeleke oregon immoderate of his aides were unsuccessful arsenic astatine property clip connected Saturday. Even though 1 of the passengers connected the plane, who did not privation to beryllium named, confided successful our analogous that foul play was being suspected from the hangar operators arsenic some engines of the craft were damaged.

However, the main enforcement serviceman (CEO), Executive Jets, owners of the hangar wherever the backstage pitchy was parked, Sam Iwuajoku, disclosed that the Chief Adeleke’s backstage pitchy had Foreign Object Damage (FOD) that made the craft experienced precocious temperature, which resulted into the explosion.

According to him, the FOD was caused by a vertebrate nest successful 1 of the engines of the jet.

“At take-off, the motor had precocious somesthesia and it was caused by vertebrate nest successful 1 of the engines of the aircraft. It happened erstwhile an aircraft is parked and not decently covered so, birds volition physique their nest and thing they bring into the craft tin spark precocious temperature.

“It happened to 1 of my craft successful 2021, we had to region the engine and the motor was successful Germany for 14 months. So, it’s a communal thing successful Africa due to the fact that we person birds around,” helium stated.

But, credible sources told LEADERSHIP that the internationally renowned musician, Davido, had utilized the level the erstwhile day, September 4, putting a prevarication to Iwuajoku of Executive Jets’ relationship of the incident.

Meanwhile, efforts to get confirmation from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) proved abortive arsenic calls and substance messages placed to its director-general, Capt. Musa Nuhu, were not replied arsenic astatine the clip of filing this study connected Saturday.

However, a reliable root confided successful our analogous that the incident wasn’t reported to the NCAA arsenic t...