Massive protests trailed the
arrival of a British Airways’ flight
from London at the Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, Lagos, last
night, as passengers aboard the flight
could not retrieve their luggage,
following the technical problem suffered
by the airliner on touchdown.
Vanguard gathered the luggage cabin of
the aircraft failed to open after the
plane landed at exactly 6:15pm.
Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that what
infuriated the aggrieved passengers was
the failure of the crew to empathise
with them.
Over 300 hundred passengers on board the
flight were reportedly stranded for
hours, as children cried uncontrollably
due to the stuffy nature of the arrival
hall, where they were cocooned, waiting
for words from the crew.
The crew were said to have left the
airport to avoid being manhandled by the
passengers, who were getting very
restive.
The eyewitness said: “The situation here
right now is chaotic. Hundreds of
passengers are protesting the shabby
treatment of British Airways’ flight
crew, who appear helpless to enable the
passengers retrieve their luggage.
“The crew members are saying the
aircraft suffered technical problem and
it was making it impossible for them to
open the luggage cabin.”
Passenger’s story
As at 9:05pm last night, the airline
crew were said to have abandoned the
passengers and left the airport, saying
there was nothing they could do to open
the luggage cabin.
One of the passengers on board, Mr.
Crosby Eribo, confirmed to Vanguard that
passengers, who arrived the airport on
board the flight were suffering, with
none of the airlines’ staff addressing
them.
He said: “What is happening here is
unfortunate. The airline’s officials
have abandoned us here and children are
here crying because of the humid nature
of the arrival hall.
“Is this how we are going to run our
aviation sector?”
He said efforts to get officials of the
airport authorities to intervene yielded
no results, as they said the problem was
strictly a British Airways affair.
Efforts to reach British Airways’
officials proved abortive, as calls pull
to their phones failed to sail through
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