{"id":103529,"date":"2019-05-29T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=103529"},"modified":"2019-05-29T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:58:02","slug":"breaking-obasanjo-escapes-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/breaking-obasanjo-escapes-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Obasanjo escapes plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo escaped what could have ended as a plane crash in Lagos on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to NAN, the ex-president was among the 393 passengers who were on board an aircraft that found it difficult to land at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger aircraft, ET-901, had departed the Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa, at 9:10am, Ethiopian time, 7 am Nigerian time.<\/p>\n<p>A NAN correspondent, who was among the passengers, said the almost 5-hour flight from the Ethiopian capital to Lagos had been smooth until the pilot attempted to land at the Murtala Muhammed International airport.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than landing on the first touch line of the runway, the pilot over short it, due to rain and heavy wind, landing on the third touchline.<\/p>\n<p>On realising this, the pilot quickly manouvered the plane back air, flying out of the Lagos airport.<\/p>\n<p>After hovering around between Lagos and areas suspected to be in Ogun, causing panic in passengers and crew members, the plane landed in Lagos airport, some 20 minutes after the initial false landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Olusegun Obasanjo escaped what could have ended as a plane crash in Lagos on Wednesday. According to NAN, the ex-president was among the 393 passengers who were on board an aircraft that found it difficult to land at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The passenger aircraft, ET-901, had departed the Bole International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":98300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[47514,800,38103],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Breaking: Obasanjo escapes plane crash | New Mail Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/breaking-obasanjo-escapes-plane-crash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Breaking: Obasanjo escapes plane crash | New Mail Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former President Olusegun Obasanjo escaped what could have ended as a plane crash in Lagos on Wednesday. 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