Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima and former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki were among top Nigerian political leaders who escaped death on a....
British Airways flight 082 that was struck by thunder while approaching Heathrow international airport in London on Thursday.
It was gathered that beside the duo of Shettima and Saraki who are both chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Victor Ochei and other top Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chiefs were also on board the plane which hovered for over 40 minutes in the air before heading towards Birmingham airport to have an emergency landing.
It was also gathered that the flight, which left Abuja around 8am on Thursday, was billed to land at Heathrow airport at about 2.30pm. The source further disclosed that after the emergency landing in Birmingham, Governor Shettima, Saraki and others were kept in the plane for about two hours during which the aircraft was refuelled and an attempt was made at fixing “some engineering issues caused by the thunder.”
When it was certain that the plane could not continue the journey back to London all the passengers were asked to disembark into three luxury buses at about 6pm which took them by road to London.
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