Air Maroc’s flight lands with open baggage cabin at Lagos airport
A Royal Air Maroc flight with registration number CN – ROR reportedly landed
at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport with its baggage cabin door open.
The incident, which caused panic to passengers
on board and raised suspicion for a possible attack on the aircraft, was not
alarming after all.
A statement signed by the spokesperson of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, confirmed that the Aviation Security officials that escorted the aircraft dismissed rumour of attack on the aircraft.
According to FAAN, the AVSEC officials, upon landing, “noted that although all necessary security landing procedures were observed as the aircraft was landing and there was no invader around the aircraft, they suspected the opening must have been as a result of a forced landing.”
The Authority said further investigation revealed, “that all passengers on the flight got their luggage intact, except for a certain Tazi Larbi, whose luggage with tag number 829116 did not come on the flight because it was left in Morocco.”
FAAN, however, noted that appropriate agencies had already swung into action to investigate the incident with a view to ascertain the cause.
The aircraft, which landed at about 0404hours today October 11, 2019, pushed back at about 0530 hours and was airborne to Morrocco at 0540 hours.
