MED VIEW AIRLINE FLIGHT ESCAPES CRASH

A Med View Airline Flight 214 airline, a Boeing 737-400 series marked 5N-BPA with 74 passengers on board narrowly escaped a crash yesterday, Sunday 27 Jan., when one of the engines shut down mid-air. The flight took off at 12noon and about 15 minutes into the flight, the pilot heard a loud bang and there was an immediate loss of thrust on one of the engines and as a precautionary measure the pilot returned to Lagos.

The plane landed safely with one engine and the passengers were transferred to another of the airline’s aircraft, a Boeing 737-80 series and flown to Abuja safely.