Over 100 passengers billed to travel to the United Kingdom with British Airways (BA) could not leave the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja (NAIA) on Monday morning as the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) grounded the aircraft which was to airlift the passengers.
BusinessDay learnt that one of the engines of the plane developed technical fault just before take-off from the air- port, consequently, all the aver 100 passengers aboard the flight were asked to disembark from the plane until a solution was found to the problem.
The regulatory agency, NCAA; it was learnt, later grounded it.
In another development, an Emirates airline flight to Ghana was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia when a passenger died shortly after take-off from Dubai on Tuesday.
The EK787 flight was heading to Accra, Ghana but had to land in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia following the emergency.
"The passenger received immediate medical attention however unfortunately was pronounced dead by an airport physician on the ground," said a spokesperson for Emirates in a statement.
"Emirates would like to express its condolences to the family of the deceased."
Other news agencies in Saudi Arabia have however reported that the deceased is a Ghanaian but Citi Business News could not confirm that.
Source: www.atqnews.com
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