Two Air Peace’s planes involve in ground collision in Lagos

Two airplanes belonging to Air Peace collided today during maneouvering on the ramp of Murtala Muhammed Airport, Domestic Wing One, MMA1, Lagos for a take off.
While the cause of the incident is yet to be identified, the airline has however set in motion efforts to quickly return them into operations.
Responding to the incident, Corporate Communication Manager of Air Peace, Chris Iwarah said the management of the airline can confirm that at about 6.15am on April 20, “the winglet of our B737 aircraft with registration mark 5N-BQR, which was being towed within the very limited space at the ramp of the position for departure, had a partial contact with the stabiliser of another of our  B737 aircraft with registration mark 5N-BQP”.
Iwarah explained that the points of contact of the two aircraft were only slightly impacted.“We took the cautious decision to declare them unserviceable to enable proper investigation of the incident, checks and repair by our Engineering and Maintenance Department in line with our high safety standards.There were no passengers on board the two aircraft involved in the incident. We have also revised our flight schedule to cater to our esteemed guests on the 14 sectors the two aircraft were scheduled to service today, ” he said.
While noting that everything is working according to plan, the spokesman added that the airline engineers have already begun repair of the aircraft.
He said: “At the moment, everything is working according to plan and our engineers have already begun repair of the aircraft”.