Apprehension has continued to grow among residents of Iba and Igando in Lagos following the appearance of a light plane with number N972TF at Dapsey filling station along the LASU- Iba road close to Igando. When NigerianCurrent visited the scene this morning residents and a detachment of policemen were seen milling around the filling station to get a glimpse of the unusual sight. It could not be ascertained if the plane actually fell as is being speculated among some media outlets this morning as residents said there was no sound in the night to pin the incident to a plane that fell. A policeman among a detatchment at the scene that NigerianCurrent approached said: "We also saw it the way you have seen it. It was not here as at 10pm yesternight when our men patrolled this same area. It is a mystery to everybody" Resident, Johnson Akabue who said he lives two streets away from the filling station said nobody in the community, not even the vigilante that guarded the area could ascertain how the plane got there. Akabue said he was not sure there was crash but suspected the plane may have been towed there. NigerianCurrent observed that apart from a chopped off wing on the right side of the plane, there were no other brusises on the plane nor was the chopped off section within the viscinity of the filling station. None of the filling station attendants nor the manager was available for comments as the police cordoned off the area from curious lookers that had converged to take shots. As at 9am traffic had started building on the road thus fuelling more confusion. A social commentator, Mr. Arogundade Timilehin told NigerianCurrent the plane may have been one of the junks laying abandoned at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport that may have been on its way to canibalisation and so its transportation may have been in the night to avoid attention. "It may have been abandoned here due to what only the handlers know. However, it is a shame on the police that they could not determine the exact time it happened". As at the time of filing this report, there had been no official statement from the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Authority (NAMA).
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:15:05 +0000
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