#HNNAfrica was FIRST to TWEET you that A British Airways plane was struck by lightning on Thursday night. This plane left Abuja for the UK and had to be diverted to Birmingham, U.K. Well turns out there were TWO prominent AND CONTROVERSIAL politicians onboard.
Umm....You know what they say about lightning when it strikes. The rest is up to you! Governor Shettima of Borno state, the Boko Haram enclave and #BringBackOurGirls controversy governor was on board and so was PDP decamper Senator Bukola Saraki who most haters have billed insensitive during his Kwara Governor days.
Mmm...two Nigerian Governor types. I wonder if British Airways will tell #HNNAfrica which side of the plane the lightning struck. First Class seating area maybe? Well, They escaped DEATH! Maybe that was a warning. To the rest of the passengers, thank GOD u made it!
It was gathered that the flight, which left Abuja around 8am on Thursday, was billed to land at Heathrow airport at about 2.30pm. The source further disclosed that after the emergency landing in Birmingham, Governor Shettima, Saraki and others were kept in the plane for about two hours during which the aircraft was refuelled and an attempt was made at fixing “some engineering issues caused by the thunder.”
When it was certain that the plane could not continue the journey back to London, Saturday Sun gathered that all the passengers were asked to disembark into three luxury buses at about 6pm which took them by road to London.
The journey by road from Birmingham to London which lasted for about four hours due to traffic jam was said to have left many of the passengers with pre-booked train trips to their destinations outside London stranded.
“Unfortunately, we were left unattended to at Birmingham because BA has no ground staff at Birmingham before we were eventually transported by road and sadly again, we got to London at about 10pm when many people could not go anywhere and still, we had to bear the brunt of looking for accommodation for ourselves”, one of the passengers stated.
“The shock of the loud bang caused by the thunder and the several hours spent both in the air hovering and on the road left many of us weak and sick but our joy is that we survived what could have been a major disaster on the heels of the Boko Haram inflicted tragedies in Nigeria”, the source added.
When it was certain that the plane could not continue the journey back to London, Saturday Sun gathered that all the passengers were asked to disembark into three luxury buses at about 6pm which took them by road to London.
The journey by road from Birmingham to London which lasted for about four hours due to traffic jam was said to have left many of the passengers with pre-booked train trips to their destinations outside London stranded.
“Unfortunately, we were left unattended to at Birmingham because BA has no ground staff at Birmingham before we were eventually transported by road and sadly again, we got to London at about 10pm when many people could not go anywhere and still, we had to bear the brunt of looking for accommodation for ourselves”, one of the passengers stated.
“The shock of the loud bang caused by the thunder and the several hours spent both in the air hovering and on the road left many of us weak and sick but our joy is that we survived what could have been a major disaster on the heels of the Boko Haram inflicted tragedies in Nigeria”, the source added.
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