Tag: Ferry, Fire, passengers
Ferry with 217 passengers catches fire
A TT-Line ferry with 217 passengers on board caught fire while en route from Trelleborg, Sweden, to Travemünde, Germany. The fire broke out just before the Peter Pan...
Ferry with 217 passengers catches fire
A TT-Line ferry with 217 passengers on board caught fire while en route from Trelleborg, Sweden, to Travemünde, Germany. The fire broke out just before the Peter Pan...
217 passengers escape death as charger explodes on Virgin Atlantic flight
A Virgin Atlantic flight has made an emergency landing in Boston after a fire broke out on board following a power bank explosion. The BBC reports that the plane was...
100 passengers escape death as Air Peace overshoots runway
An Air Peace Flight P47291 with about 100 passengers and crew onboard from Abuja on Saturday skidded off the runway at the Port Harcourt Airport, Omagwa, while landing....
NRC to passengers: Don’t kill yourself because you want to ride on train
The Lagos District Manager of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Jerry Oche, on Saturday advised intending train passengers to desist from all suicidal acts while...
Nigerian airports record 3.5m passengers in three months
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) on Monday said a total of 3.5 million passengers passed through Nigerian airports in 54,000 aircraft movements in the...
VIDEO: Passengers tie up violent medical doctor on plane mid-air
A “foul-mouthed and violent” Russian medical doctor, Vadim Bondar was overpowered and tied up by male passengers after causing terror on an Aeroflot flight...
Nigerian airports handle 14.2m passengers in one year
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Monday disclosed that 14,171,722 air travellers went through Nigerian airports in 2018. The figure represents 20.8 per...
14.2m passengers used Nigerian airports in 2018
Nigerian airports handled 14,171,722 air travellers in 2018, according to figures released on Tuesday in Lagos by the Consumer Protection Directorate of the...
Two Nigerians among 157 passengers killed in Ethiopian Airline crash
A retired Nigerian ambassador, Abiodun Bashua and a scholar, Pius Adesanmi (who travelled on a Canadian passport), have been confirmed to be among the 157 passengers...
FAAN: Nigerian airports handled 15.2 million passengers in 2018
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), in its latest annual report, said a total of 15.2 million passengers passed through Nigerian airports in 227,834...
