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Thursday, May 30, 2019

Obasanjo Read The Papers And Remained Calm Inside Ethiopian Airlines Plane That Almost Crashed..

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has narrated his experience while on board an Ethiopian Airline flight that nearly crashed on Wednesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.







The airplane, Boeing 777-300, narrowly avoided an accident while trying to land with nearly 400 people on board.

In an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Obasanjo said ”he remained calm and read papers while the scary situation occurred.”

“While it all happened, I was reading my papers,One man, who was next to me, said, ‘Oga you no worry?’ I said, ‘Íf I worry, what will I do? If you are on a plane and you have a situation like this, why should you worry?’ I left everything in the hands of God.”

Mr Obasanjo was returning from a stakeholders dialogue on continental trade and implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AFCFTA) which ended on Tuesday in Addis Ababa.

The plane, with 394 persons on board, had a false landing due to strong winds and a heavy downpour and was about to overshoot its runway before it returned to the air.

“I was on Ethiopian Airline. Rain just came down heavily,” Mr Obasanjo recalled.

“The pilot thought he could land. And he landed. He touched down. But I think he took a swift decision that he had to take off again.

“So he took off. If he did not, I think he probably would have overrun the runway. He then apologized and said he would try to land again. He tried again, and we landed safely. And we all clapped.”

The ex-military head of state said the pilot first landed the plane at about 12:20 p.m. before the incident, but finally landed safely on return at 12:30 p.m.

“He touched the ground. Then he took off and apologized and landed again at about 12.30. We spent just about 10 minutes in the air before we landed again,” he said.

33 comments:

  1. Thank God for their lives... God is awesome

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    1. Thank God for their lives.
      Thank for God our Obansajo...... who for bury e father in-law?

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  2. Akpu Nwa!!!
    Very brave for days πŸ’ͺ

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    1. Medusa International.
      Nne don't disappear again.

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    2. onye nna na chinkoπŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ
      my mainest gee!
      I will try
      πŸ€—πŸ€—πŸ€—

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    3. Lol!
      It's been long I heard 'akpu nwa' πŸ˜‚

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    4. lmaooooooo
      been on YouTube watching old movies the whole week.πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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  3. “While it all happened, I was reading my papers,One man, who was next to me, said, ‘Oga you no worry?’ I said, ‘Íf I worry, what will I do? If you are on a plane and you have a situation like this, why should you worry?’ I left everything in the hands of God.”

    That's the spirit when you trust and believe in God.

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  4. Baba nor dey shake! Baba dey kampe na!

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  5. Thank God for you Mr. Mathew

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    1. Haaahaahaa!
      If baba catch you calling him, Matthew eehπŸ˜†

      Thank God for you Baba OBJ

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  6. I would've peed in my pants.

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    1. I trust u, u for de reason how u go explain the whole bed breaking intrigues to Baba Godey

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  7. Thank God for safe landing

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  8. Just 10mins interval & the press escalated the story. All the same, thank God for His protection always.

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    1. 10 mins hanging in the air is 'just'?
      πŸ€”πŸ™„

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    2. That ten minutes go be dem like 10 hrs.

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    3. And you think 10 minute is too small to be worried for their life?weldon oooo you that have spare life.

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  9. Thank God, no more loss of lives again

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  10. Thank God for safe landing.

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  11. Thank God for their lives

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  12. Thank GOD for their lives!!!
    But baba would be like, I've seen it all, even if I die now, no shaking
    A military man is always a military man, whether retired or still active

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  13. critical moment in an airplane is the taking off and Landing, within this two stages anything can happen. We thank God for God being God.

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  14. That's the spirit of a military.
    A general at that, that has seen war and a former military leader. You only die once.

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