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Lagos Airport Shut Temporarily As Officials Discover Dead Body On Runway
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During the temporary shutdown of the runway, international flights were prevented from landing and taking off from the airport’s international terminal
- Airport officials said the corpse was suddenly found on Runway 18R during a routine runway inspection by FAAN personnel
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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, was temporarily shut in the early hours of Thursday after the mangled body of a dead man was found on Runway 18R.
The identity of the corpse has not been confirmed yet.
It still remains unknown whether the dead man was knocked down by an aircraft taking off or landing on the runway.
However, airport officials told our correspondent that the runway was temporarily shut down while a team of officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigeria Police Force evacuated the corpse from the runway.
During the temporary shutdown of the runway, international flights were prevented from landing and taking off from the airport’s international terminal.
Among the flights that could not land due to the shutdown was an Ethiopian Airlines flight 3907, a Boeing 77F aircraft with registration number ETAVN, which was coming from Lome, Togo to Lagos, Nigeria.
The flight was later diverted back to Lome after holding for a while.
Airport officials said the corpse was suddenly found on Runway 18R during a routine runway inspection by FAAN personnel.
The officials were said to have reported a corpse on the runway around the cargo area.
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The spokesperson for FAAN, Faithful Avokerie Hope-Ivbaz said she had yet to be briefed on the development.
Similarly, the Police Public Relations Officer, Airport Command, Olayinka Ojelade, said he had yet to get the requited signal on the incident.
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