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<\/p>\nThe Boeing 777-300, with over 390 people on board landed on third attempt amid strong winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n
Obasanjo, who was returning from a meeting on implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AFCFTA) which ended on Tuesday in Addis Ababa, said he remained calm and read papers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was on Ethiopian Airline: rain just came down heavily\u201d, Obasanjo told Premium Times.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pilot thought he could land and he landed. He touched down, but I think he took a swift decision that he had to take off again.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he took off. If he did not, I think he probably would have overrun the runway. He then apologised and said he would try to land again. He tried again, and we landed safely. And we all clapped.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe touched the ground. Then he took off and apologised and landed again at about 12.30. We spent just about 10 minutes in the air before we landed again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it all happened, I was reading my papers. One man, who was next to me, said, \u2018Oga you no worry?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI said \u2018if I worry, what will I do? If you are on a plane and you have a situation like this, why should you worry?\u2019 I left everything in the hands of God.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former Nigeria’s President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has spoken on the Ethiopian Airline flight that nearly crashed on Wednesday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The Boeing 777-300, with over 390 people on board landed on third attempt amid strong winds and heavy rain. Obasanjo, who was returning from a meeting on implementation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[11160,8213,10998],"class_list":["post-122038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-aircrash","tag-ethiopia-airlines","tag-obj"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}