Man crashes car into 737 aircraft in Nigeria

[Ian David]

Source: AP (via USA Today)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A man crashed his car through security gates and into a parked commercial aircraft at a Nigerian airport Wednesday, marking the latest airport security breach in a country where the attempted Christmas Day airline bomber apparently managed to get by screening.

The man slammed an aging Audi sedan through two sets of gates guarded by the Nigerian Air Force at Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, a city near the country's eastern border with Cameroon, federal aviation spokesman Akin Olukunle said.

The car then rammed into a Boeing 737 operated by Arik Air, Nigeria's top commercial airline.

The aircraft was empty at the time of the collision and no one was injured, Olukunle said. A photograph of the car published online by the Nigerian newspaper NEXT showed it wedged underneath the belly of the aircraft, its front bumper hanging off.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-03-31-Nigeria_N.htm

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Meanwhile, inside the tower...




Hat-tip to:

Driver rams security gate at Nigeria’s Calabar airport, crashes car into commercial jetliner
http://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/11386270665

[flvegan]

1. That's a LOT of aircraft to hit with one car!

I'll be here all week.

[dorkulon]

10. *groan*

:spank:

[Renew Deal]

2. Here's a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFTVij1BBf8

[superconnected]

7. which has nothing to do with the actual car that hit the plan. It's a video game video.

[Walk away]

3. Was it a Toyota? nt

[Renew Deal]

4. lol

:rofl:

[proteus_lives]

5. The bosses in Tokyo hope not!

[harmonicon]

8. reading says "no": "an aging Audi sedan" (nt)

[dorkulon]

12. Didn't Audi have the same acceleration problems back in the '80s though?

Yep, here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi#Reported_sudden_unintended_acceleration

[Aaria]

6. Christmas day wasn't secruity breach, according to the witnesses.......

http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2010/01/truth-about-flight-253-has-been.html

But we'll sit here like the dolts we are and believe that we're going to be oh so safe now with our full body scanners.

We deserve the government that we get.

[conspirator]

9. Who do he think he is? Bruce Willis? nt

[AllyCat]

11. Was there an Obama bumper sticker on the 737?

[Vidar]

13. Apparently a low flying plane.

[rocktivity]

14. He crashed into 737 aircraft?

Audis must be built like TANKS!

:crazy:
rocktivity