IRS Aircraft Makes Emergency Landing With 89 Passengers!

According to sunnewsonline.com, another air crash was  avoided yesterday as the aircraft of a domestic airline, IRS,  made an emergency landing at the Kaduna Airport following a major problem with its hydraulic systems.
However, all 89 passengers on board were safe.  Daily Sun gathered that the Fokker 28 aircraft which  departed the domestic terminal of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos in the afternoon, for Kaduna, had hydraulic problem few minutes before landing at the Kaduna airport. It will be the third mechanical fault incident in Nigeria following the crash of an aircraft belonging to Associated Airline crashed on October 3, 2013 in Lagos killing 15 persons. The other two incidents involved Dana and Kabo airlines.
The Managing Director of  IRS Airline, Yemi Dada, said the crew of the flight had decided to make an emergency landing at the runway of the Kaduna airport following an alert of “a low hydraulic” on the aircraft while approaching the airport.
Said Dada:  “On final approach to Kaduna today on our flight 3390 with 89 passengers, our cockpit crew got a low hydraulic in system 1 warning and decided to take precautionary measures to ask for ground confirmation that all gears were down and locked and the aircraft landed normally after the control tower had confirmed that the gears were all down normally.”
Dada stated that the crew had thereafter proceeded to land but followed procedure to disembark on the runway and not taxi in accordance with the procedure.
“All passengers disembarked normally and the aircraft was towed to ramp,” he said, adding that  “the maintenance crew are inspecting to confirm the issue that caused the warning to the crew.”