Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has debunked the reports of the attack on a Royal Air Maroc flight in Lagos Airport, insisting that the baggage cabin door of the aircraft opened while landing
FAAN, in a statement made available to www.africanbusinesstravel.com.ng by its spokesperson, Mrs Henrientta Yakubu today, stated that aviation security team on ground when the flight landed and escorted it to the apron confirmed that the baggage cabin door was seen opened, but didn’t see any invader around the aircraft from the point it landed and throughout the period it taxied to the apron.
“A Royal Air Maroc flight with registration number CN – ROR landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 0404hours today October 11, 2019 with its baggage cabin door opened which could had happened as a result of hard landing.
“Confirming the incident, Aviation Security officials that escorted the aircraft upon landing noted that although all necessary security landing procedures were observed as the aircraft was landing and their was no invader around the aircraft, they suspected the opening must have been as a result of force landing,” said FAAN
However, investigations revealed that no baggage was reported missing on arrival except for that of one Tazi Larbo which was left in Morrocco
“Further investigation revealed that all passengers on the flight got their luggage intact, except for a certain Tazi Larbi, whose luggage with tag number 829116 did not come on the flight because it was left in Morocco
“Appropriate agencies have however commenced investigation into the incident to ascertain the cause,” the Nigerian airports authority added.
The aircraft pushed back at about 0530 hours and was airborne to Morrocco at 0540 hours.
