A Max Air aircraft with the registration number: 5N-MBD on Tuesday night suffered tyre burst at the Mal. Aminu International Airport (MAKIA), Kano with 53 passengers onboard.
A source close to the airport, said that the aircraft had tyre burst on landing at 22:57pm.
The flight VM1605 had earlier departed the Murtala Muhammed Muhammed (MMA), Lagos for Kano.
It was however gathered that all the passengers onboard the flight were evacuated safely from the aircraft without any major injuries.
It was learnt that the aircraft may have lost the nose landing gear tyre during landing, thereby leading to the serious incident.
As at the time of filing this report, no official of the airline could be reached for comments.
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers.
She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay.
She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos.
As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender.
She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies.
Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the
prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category.
She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category.
She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations.
Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.
