Stowaway Exposes Poor Security at MMIA

  It has been confirmed that a 22-year old may from Nnewi in Anambra state stowed away in a spares compartment of Boeing B747 aircraft operated by Medview Airline and travelled to London from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and returned unharmed. Security operatives who are confounded by the successful access of the […]

Nigeria’s Porous Airports

Despite the seemingly tight security at the nation’s airports, incidents of stowaways and other illegal infiltrations to supposedly secure areas of the airports are on the rise. The report last Wednesday of a dead body found in the wheel-well of Arik Air aircraft on arrival in Johannesburg at the South Africa Airways Technical maintenance at […]

Stowaway Found in Arik Aircraft in Johannesburg

The lifeless body of a stowaway was on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 found in the main wheel well of one of Arik Air’s A330-200 aircraft at the Oliver Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg. The aircraft operated the scheduled Lagos-Johannesburg flight that departed the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at 3:55pm on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 and arrived […]