A private jet, carrying 10 people, including some Very Important Persons (VIPs), has ran into a bush at the Ibadan airport runway in the Oyo State capital.
A source said that the incident happened today, January 26, at about 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport.
The jet, with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway and skidded into the nearby bush.
Firefighters and rescue officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) were immediately deployed to the scene. But there was no death or casualty recorded.
Spokesperson for the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Carol Adekotujo, confirmed the accident.
She said: “It was a private plane from Abuja. “It landed safely but overshot the runway. There was no casualty.”
Also, spokesman for the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Tunji Oketunmbi, confirmed the incident but said a team has been dispatched to the site for a probe.
Just in November last year, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, escaped death when a plane he was flying in, crash-landed at the same airport.
