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A Nigerian lady has told of her near death experince on board an Arik air flight from Lagos headed to Accra Ghana.

According to the lady who’s on Twitter as Adetutu Balogun@Tutsy22, 35 mins into the 55mins flight, the flight with flight name ‘Stephen’ allegedly caught fire and was forced to make an emergency landing.

The lady also accused the management of being irresponsible, saying that they put a flight out without oxygen masks, thereby endangering the lives of their engers.

Read her tweets below:

@ArikAirlineNg @arikairflight flight w3304 airborne Accra on Tue 6/03/18 caught fire. D flight which took off at exactly 7.20pm was said to have caught fire barely 35min into its flight.HORRIBLE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: A NEAR CRASH INCIDENT ON ARIK AIR FLIGHT FROM LAGOS TO ACCRA.

2. enger: The name of the aircraft is STEPHEN. It was a Dash 8 NextGen propeller aircraft. The flight took off precisely 7.20pm (Lagos time) 35 minutes into the 55 minutes flight, I started perceiving something smelling like a burning stuff.

3. Shortly after the guy sitting next to me asked if I perceived any smell of burning stuff and that confirmed my worst fears. Before you could say jack, smoke has filled the cabin.

4. The air hostesses were busy scampering around opening the cabins and the lavatories to check if they could trace the source of the smoke without success.

5. While that continued, the oxygen masks that were always being d during the safety demo prior to take-off couldn’t be released instead we were handed tissue papers to use to cover our noses to minimize and filter out possible carbon monoxide inhalation.

6. About 5 minutes after, precisely with 15 minutes of flight time remaining, the pilot came on the public address system to inform us that they have smoke coming into the cabin and that they don’t know the source and that they have DECLARED EMERGENCY”.

7. At that point we knew that our lives were only in God’s hands. Everyone prayed to his/her Gods. To the glory of God, the flight successfully landed by 8.15pm (7.15pm Accra time) to the waiting of several fire service trucks at Kotoko International airport, Accra.

8. We were evacuated into a waiting bus with instruction to leave everything behind in the cabin. Sadly there was no Arik official to address us neither was there any manner of first aid attention given to the engers to manage stress and possible elevated blood pressures.

9. After a while our cabin luggage were brought to us and we had to leave from there to go through the Ghana immigration to our individual destinations.

10. I’m highly discouraged that this near crash major incident was not reported in the media 2 days after (today is 08/03/2018) and I suspect a cover up by Arik and the authorities. So I have chosen to use the social media to ensure this news gets out.

11. Kindly keep forwarding this message till everybody is made aware of the quality and kind of services Arik air gives and the possible cover ups before something terrible happens.

12. @NCAAGOVNG should ground the plane until: – The circumstances of the mishap is known, – Why ArikAir put a plane without oxygen masks in the air? – Why ArikAir failed to provide for traumatised engers after landing?

13.ArikAir acted extremely irresponsible & knowingly endangered d lives of those engers by breaching basic safety regulations.We demand a proper investigation into this incident.

Source: http://dailyleakblog.com/2018/03/10/lady-narrates-her-near-crash-experience-on-board-an-arik-flight-from-lagos-to-ghana/

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If you think women are weak...Try removing her skirt when shes wearing a torn underwear.. It will be world war 3 my brother.

Just pray whenever you wanna go on a journey.






I didn't read the story sha

Isokay

Thank God for exceptional safety

which day i go enter plane sef.

Behold, what manner of love the father has lavished on us That we should be called sons of God

Babangida70:
If you think women are weak...Try removing her skirt when shes wearing a torn underwear.. It will be world war 3 my brother.

You need help man.You really really need help.

The rot, mediocrity and corruption is now everywhere you go in Nigeria.

incominx344:

pursue this bastard comot for nairaland ,don't even ban him.

Na wa o

arik again

Very risky, imagining the trauma the engers went through.

Olorun Jehovah baba Mimo, save us from this Monster call Arik

Na plane own una dey talk, how far we wey Dey enter bus Nkor...

Wahala get levels sha... Every man with hin own.

Anyway, thank God it wasn't a fatal incident.

fuckerstard:
which day i go enter plane sef.

Myself too, But one day na one day

wings of Nigeria

incominx344:

This one weak me

To all the Super s in the house... I owe y'all a huge gouge of palm-wine!!!

and this the airline buhari and his cohorts want to converts to national Carrier... buhari and his family must first fly Aero contractor and Arik for 1yr before he commercialize for public usage

Nothing gud can cum out of this country whether private or public, thats am nt suprise if anything extra ordinary happen here

No b d arik Wey dey always do press conference to welcome new planes b dis? Tot all dia airliners na cha cha... Na wa ooo.
Who do we biliv in dis country again?
Politicians lie. Business ppu lie.. We sef lie to awasef tho... D circle continue..

Arik airline is bad

poor man dey die nobody dey talk, big man wan die everybody is making noise.