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The airport has been closed due to the discovery of a ‘dead stowaway who fell from the plane’ on the runway.
After a man’s body was discovered on the tarmac, a major airport was forced to close a runway and divert all planes.
The man died tragically at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, which was forced to close while an investigation was conducted.
International flights were unable to depart or arrive, and some passengers were turned away.
Officials are still trying to figure out how the individual ended up on the runway.
According to preliminary reports, he was a stowaway who died after falling from the wheel-well of an aero plane taxiing to take off.
The man’s body was discovered during a routine search. “Nobody can say much now,” said aviation security specialist and former MMIA Group Captain John Ojikutu, “but he may have been knocked down by the wingspan or undercarriage of a jumbo jet, but it is too early to say anything like that now.”
He suggested that the huge residential area near the airport could be a good spot to start looking for the man.
“We need to look into the issue of houses built too close to the Lagos airport,” he told news.com.
“The rule states that no construction should be located closer than 6 meters to the airport structure or barrier.” However, we have previously observed examples of people crossing the runway.