A false fire alarm triggered panic on an Air Peace Port Harcourt-Lagos flight prompting the airline to request for priority landing, Daily Trust reports.
However, officials of the airline said despite the false alarm, the aircraft operating flight P47193 landed safely while the passengers were disembarked.
The airline in a statement explained that some minutes before landing, its captain noticed a fire warning indicator in the cockpit.
It said, “The pilots performed all safety precautionary measures and the fire indicator went off. The Captain immediately notified our operations control centre in Lagos at 17:37hrs.
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“It was determined upon landing that the alarm was falsely triggered as there was no fire event. The aircraft landed safely, and all passengers disembarked normally,” the statement said.
Our correspondent reports that this is coming few days after a Dana aircraft skidded off the runway in Lagos, a development that prompted the grounding of all its aircraft.