Another disaster averted this afternoon as IRS Aircraft made an emergency landing

Another air disaster was averted this
afternoon when an IRS Aircraft made an
emergency landing in Kaduna. A Fokker 28
plane, carrying 89 passengers from Lagos to
Kaduna, developed hydraulic problems few
minutes before landing at the Kaduna airport.
The aircraft's front tyres refused to come out
during landing, forcing the pilot to land
without them. Fortunately no one was injured.
The Managing Director of IRS, Yemi Dada,
later explained what happened to reporters.
He said:
"The pilots received a low hydraulic
warning minutes before landing, and this
affected the landing gear, nose wheel
steering, brakes, cargo doors, thrust
reverser and the flight controls."
“On final approach to Kaduna today on
our flight 3390 with 89 passengers, our
cockpit crew got a low hydraulic in
system 1 warning and decided to take
precautionary measures to ask for
ground confirmation that all gears were
down and locked."
“The crew proceeded to land but
followed procedure to disembark on the
runway and not taxi in accordance with
the procedure.”
He said all passengers disembarked with the
assistance of a crane before the aircraft was
towed to ramp. He also said the airline's
maintenance crew is checking the aircraft to
see what happened.