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An Arik Air flight with Lagos as its destination was aborted on Wednesday evening in Abuja after some technical issues.
The plane's engines could not start thereby causing a delay in the schedule of the flight.
The flight, which was to transport passenger from the local wing of the Abuja airport to the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, was scheduled for 7pm but was delayed till about 8pm.
According to one of the intending travelers, Dominic, who spoke to Channels Television, 'The passengers had checked in and were about boarding the aircraft when some people noticed the pilot was having issues in his seat.
'After a few minutes, a member of the Arik team announced to us in front of the airplane that there was a technical issue' and so they would have to wait for another aircraft from Lagos, to ferry them to their destination.
'So we had to wait another 1 hour and a few minutes for the arrival of another plane.'
Following the series of air mishaps and accidents which have occurred in the Nigerian airspace, including the Akure bound Associated Airline plane which crashed on October 3rd but not before giving the pilot warning signals, some passengers gave Airk Air kudos for not 'managing the airplane' on Wednesday night.
The passengers finally arrived in Lagos at about 12 midnight on another aircraft.
The Lagos flight which should have taken off by 7 pm was delayed till 8. Passengers were informed as they were about to board that the plane had some issues and they would need to wait for another aircraft coming from Lagos to take them. Another plane eventually arrived a little after an hour.
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