The airport’s runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja was closed down yesterday, after an Aerocontractors Airlines crash-landed at the airport.
The incident involved a Boeing 733 aircraft with Nationality and Registration Marks 5N-BYQ.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that the aircraft which was from Lagos arrived in Abuja and in a bid to exit the runway via A4 had its nose wheel stuck in the grass verge with its fuselage on the runway.
“Consequently, the runway was closed pending the towing of the aircraft from the runway,” the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau said in a statement, adding that an investigation has commenced into the “serious incident”.
“There was no injury or fatality,” said a spokesman for the Bureau, James Odaudu.
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In a related development, the airport in the northern German city of Hamburg was shut down even as flights were canceled Saturday night after a vehicle broke through security and entered the premises, state media has confirmed.
Federal police disclosed that an armed man had broken through a gate with his vehicle and fired twice into the air with a weapon.
Police also revealed that the man’s wife had previously contacted them about a possible child abduction.
Africa Today News, New York reports that Police said later that the 35-year-old man had a 4-year-old child inside the car and that they assumed he was the father and had taken the child by force from the mother in a possible custody battle.
Federal police spokesman Thomas Gerbert told reporters that a large number of officers from state and federal police were on site and in the vicinity of the vehicle.
Police also said that a psychologist was talking with the man and that there was no indication other people could be harmed since all passengers had evacuated the airport.