LAGOS: A Qatar Airways flight from Doha safely made an emergency landing in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos yesterday after encountering a problem with one of its tyres, the civil aviation body said.
“The plane has landed safely,” said Harold Demuren, the head of Nigeria’s Civil Aviation Authority. “We lost one of the tyres.”
He said that no passengers were injured during the emergency landing. Meanwhile, in a press statement issued yesterday, Qatar Airways while confirming that one of the aircraft’s 10 tyres was reported to have ‘low pressure,’ said that at no time was the landing declared an emergency one by the captain. “At no point during the flight, or upon landing, was the safety of passengers or crew compromised in any way. The incident affected one of the aircraft’s ten tyres.” The flight was carrying 148 passengers and 14 crew members.
The Peninsula/ Agencies
