The pilots had sent out a Mayday, an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications, to the Lagos control tower. A four-member flight crew of Overland Airways made a successful landing of a distressed aircraft on the Runway 18R of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Wednesday evening, after the plane’s engine caught fire mid-air. The ATR 42 aircraft, which has 37 passengers on board, was en-route Ilorin-Lagos when the plane suddenly developed a major fault. The pilots had sent out a Mayday…
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