IRS Airlinse plane crash-lands in Kaduna

A Fokker 28 plane, carrying 89 passengers belonging to IRS Airlines made a forceful landing this evening, Sunday, October 13 at the Kaduna airport hence averting another disaster.
It was learnt that the plane’s front tyres refused to come out on time during landing, which made the pilot to crash-land the aircraft. “The front tyres didn’t come out on time and the pilot had to land the plane without its tyres out,” an airport source revealed.

The plane it was gathered was carrying Kaduna bound passengers from Lagos. However, there was no casualty.
The Managing Director of IRS, Yemi Dada, later explained what happened to reporters. He said:

"The pilots received a low hydraulic warning minutes before landing, and this affected the landing gear, nose wheel steering, brakes, cargo doors, thrust reverser and the flight controls."

“On final approach to Kaduna today on our flight 3390 with 89 passengers, our cockpit crew got a low hydraulic in system 1 warning and decided to take precautionary measures to ask for ground confirmation that all gears were down and locked."

“The crew proceeded to land but followed procedure to disembark on the runway and not taxi in accordance with the procedure.”

He said all passengers disembarked with the assistance of a crane before the aircraft was towed to ramp. He also said the airline's maintenance crew is checking the aircraft to see what happened.