By SouthernVoicenews,
Tragedy was today averted even as fear gripped travellers when a plane belonging to air peace crash-landed in Ilorin international airport.
Though there was no casualty recorded, as many top politicians narrowly escaped death.
Congress learnt that, the aircraft crashed around 9:30am on Friday morning upon landing in Ilorin from Abuja.
Source said the tyre of the plane had burst which affected the cabin with luggage falling on passengers.
The air port had been closed 24 hours as efforts to clear the crash plane off the runway was ongoing.
The Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria(FAAN) and other agencies offered to keep the incident under wraps.
“We were directed to manage the situation,” the source said.