{"id":399690,"date":"2018-02-08T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399690"},"modified":"2018-02-08T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:48:53","slug":"emergency-door-falls-off-nigerian-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/emergency-door-falls-off-nigerian-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency door falls off Nigerian plane"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Nigerian airline has blamed a passenger after one of its aircraft doors fell off shortly after landing.<\/p>\n
The flight from Lagos to Abuja was taxiing on the runway when the emergency exit door came away.<\/p>\n
Dana Air denied that it was caused by a mechanical fault, and said the door could not fall off “without a conscious effort by a passenger to open it”.<\/p>\n
But one passenger told the BBC that everyone on board had denied tampering with the door.<\/p>\n
Dapo Sanwo, from Lagos, said: “The flight was noisy with vibrations from the floor panel. I noticed the emergency door latch was loose and dangling.”<\/p>\n
“When we landed and the plane was taxiing back to the park point, we heard a poof-like explosion, followed by a surge of breeze and noise. It was terrible.”<\/p>\n
“The cabin crew tried to say a passenger pulled the hatch which everyone denied. They also tried to get us to stop taking videos or pictures.”<\/span>Ola Brown, who was also travelling on the flight, said on Twitter: “Did you hear [the door] rattling the whole flight? Was so unsettling. I just thought it was a screw loose, Didn’t think it would actually just fall off.”<\/p>\n