Nigeria’s skies got a scare Sunday when a Flybird Hawker 800XP jet from Abuja suffered a nose gear flop on landing at Kano’s Malam Aminu International Airport but all eight souls aboard walked away unscathed, sparking swift NSIB investigators to dig into the drama.
The non-scheduled hop with two pilots, a cabin crew and five passengers hit turbulence in approach: crew spotted a gear glitch, buzzed the runway multiple times for visual checks Kano Tower greenlit all three as extended before touching down on Runway 06 at 10:34am, only for the nose gear to buckle during rollout.
NSIB’s Go-Team is now dissecting aircraft systems, maintenance logs, crew moves and ops protocols not to finger-point, but to unearth safety fixes and dodge repeats vowing public updates as facts unfold from this multimodal safety watchdog’s no-blame hunt.
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