An Ibom Air passenger from Uyo to Abuja will face prosecution for holding an Uyo-Abuja flight hostage till the flight was cancelled, the Director of Public Affairs and Customers’ Safety of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Michael Achimugu, has mentioned.
It was gathered that the feminine passenger would have been lynched if not for the intervention of the Aviation Safety (AVSEC) personnel and people of Ibom Air.
The incident occurred on an Ibom Air flight scheduled to depart Uyo for Abuja at 1730hrs final Wednesday. Previous to the flight, passengers have been mentioned to have been knowledgeable that because of weight restrictions, some or all of their baggage might not arrive on the identical flight.
After boarding, the passenger in query observed that her bag was not among the many baggage loaded into the bowels of the plane. She subsequently left the plane in anger and insisted that her baggage should be loaded, in any other case the plane wouldn’t depart.
Regardless of the intervention of AVSEC and the pilot who even supplied to hold her checked-in baggage within the cabin if not for the dimensions, the passenger reportedly refused all entreaties and appeals.
Nonetheless, the flight couldn’t depart once more as Uyo is a sundown airport and it was virtually time for the airspace to be shut.
