Plane Conveying, Adebayo Adelabu, Tinubu’s Power Minister Crash-Lands
ADEBAYO Adelabu, Minister of Power under the current administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has escaped sudden death as an aircraft conveying him from Abuja to Ibadan crash-landed near Ibadan Airport in Oyo State.
Information had earlier filtered in that the aircraft crashed, but it was later discovered that it actually crash-landed.
Details of the incident were still sketchy as of press time but Daily Trust gathered that it happened on Friday night.
The chartered aircraft Flint Short Aero, an HS 125 with the registration number: 5N-AMM, had an initial contact with the control tower at 18:56 seeking for extension, which was granted by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), according to a source.
The aircraft departed Abuja with Ibadan as its destination.
A source said that the aircraft landed short of the threshold by about 50 metres and skidded into a bushy ditch close to the runway.
Though the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has been informed of the serious incident, the authority has yet to issue a statement.
When contacted, a spokesperson with NSIB, Mr. Tunji Oketunmbi, said that the Bureau’s investigators were on ground in Ibadan to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the incident.
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