
A very big disaster was averted last Sunday, May 19th, when an SAA South African Airways Airbus A340-600, registration ZS-SNG performing flight SA-60 from Johannesburg (South Africa) to Lagos (Nigeria) conveying over 300 people developed an electrical
fault in Mid-air. I got this info from someone on the flight and i am suprised that it's not in the news.
I heard about it yesterday when a work colleague of mine was
narrating the entire story to me and another guy in his car. According to him,
he was on the flight that faithful day..it was a night flight and he was
listening to music from his Ipod when he perceived a foul burning odor, he thought the white man sitting next to him
had farted but he knew it something more serious when he noticed people
panicking.
He pulled his headphones and asked the white guy sitting
next to him why people where panicking, all the white man was saying was ’’this
plane is going to crash! This plane s going to crash!..all of a sudden the
lighting system in the aircraft went off…everyone was mad with fear.. some started
praying others brought out their blackberries and started pinging, some started
calling loved ones and telling them
their last wishes.
The captain then announced that the plane had developed an
electrical fault and they were going to have an emergency landing. The pilot
then turned the plane around and headed back to South africa, My colleague then
revealed that it was then he saw 2face
Idibia walk past him and when he looked back he saw the popstar talking and
calming his crew down, telling them not to panic.
After 45 minutes, the captain announced that they were going
to ‘dump the fuel’ i.e remove all the jetfuel on the plane, this is a precautionary
step taken by pilots whenever a plane is going to crash or whenever there is a risk of fire. As they were about to land….another
problem came up…the captain announced that the tires of the plane could not
come out..by then everyone on the plane had given up.
Miraculously, the tires came out and the plane successfully landed
and the passengers were evacuated. My colleague then said that himself and
other passengers were taken to the arrival lounge, that was when he met Tony
Anenih’s wife,Josephine, they talked and exchanged cards.
After much investigation, it was a kettle that sparked in
the kitchen that affected the whole electrical system of the plane. According
to my colleague a lot of Nigerians including senators constituted the bulk of
passengers.
See Proof
The plane not crashing is really a miracle.
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