Passenger describes moment emergency door snaps off Nigerian plane

Passengers panic as aircraft's emergency door falls off

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"I was one foot away from the emergency exit door, so I could see the handle was popping out," Dagogo said. "We informed one of the air hostesses who insisted that it was locked," he added. Dagogo said the plane had just taxied on the runway when the door came unhinged and almost hit a passenger. "We were in the process of landing, that was when the door just opened. The white man by the door had to shift because the door would have hit him. When he shifted the door now fell on the floor of the plane." "Maybe it was breeze, but the door came off completely and the passengers came to check and began shouting and taking photos. I wonder what would have happened if the door fell off mid-air." Dagogo ...All of a sudden — poof!': Passenger describes moment emergency door snaps off Nigerian plane

CBC.ca Thu, Feb 8 9:00 AM GMT+1 

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Air travel can be a pain. When the plane lands, you just wanna hop out the emergency exit and breathe some fresh air. What you don't want is for the emergency exit door to pop open on it's own — while the plane is still moving.  But on Wednesday, that's exactly what happened on a Dana Air flight from Lagos, Nigeria to Abuja. Dapo Sanwo was on that flight. He is back in Lagos now and spoke to As It Happens host Carol Off about his ordeal. Dapo, when did you first start to notice that something might be wrong with the emergency exit on your plane? Okay, so we were at 29,000 feet. We'd got in to Abuja so we were descending to the airport, to the runway, when we noticed the latch. During the flight, ...

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Emergency door falls off Nigerian plane

BBC News Thu, Feb 8 9:00 AM GMT+1 

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A Nigerian airline has blamed a passenger after one of its aircraft doors fell off shortly after landing. The flight from Lagos to Abuja was taxiing on the runway when the emergency exit door came away. Dana Air denied that it was caused by a mechanical fault, and said the door could not fall off "without a conscious effort by a passenger to open it". But one passenger told the BBC that everyone on board had denied tampering with the door. Dapo Sanwo, from Lagos, said: "The flight was noisy with vibrations from the floor panel. I noticed the emergency door latch was loose and dangling." "When we landed and the plane was taxiing back to the park point, we heard a poof-like explosion, followed ...