• Airline confirms incident, saying passengers, cabin crew sustained no injuries
Chinedu Eze in Lagos, Felix Omoh-Asun in Benin and Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo in Enugu
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) said it has commenced an investigation into a runway excursion involving an Enugu Air Embraer E170 aircraft at Benin Airport.
NSIB in a statement said the aircraft, operating as Flight 4264 (registration 5N-ENR) from Lagos (LOS) to Benin (BNI), was involved in a runway excursion after overrunning the end of Runway 05 during landing at approximately 1510 hours local time (1410 UTC) yesterday.
NSIB confirmed that there were 63 passengers and five crew members on board the aircraft and all passengers and crew have been accounted for, and no injuries have been reported.
