Max Air plane suffers tyre burst in Kano

A Max Air aircraft carrying 53 passengers with the registration number: 5N-MBD suffered a tyre burst late Tuesday night at the Mallam Aminu International Airport, Kano.

A passenger told source that the aircraft had suffered the tyre burst on landing at 22:57pm.

The aircraft had earlier departed the Murtala Muhammed Muhammed Airport in Lagos for Kano.

It was, however, gathered that all the passengers onboard the flight were evacuated safely from the aircraft without any injuries.

Our correspondent gathered that the aircraft may have lost the nose landing gear tyre during landing, thereby leading to the incident.

As of the time of filing this report, no official of the airline could be reached for comments.

Also, efforts to speak with the officials of the Nigeria Safety Investigation Bureau were unsuccessful. Several calls and text messages put across to the spokesperson of the agency were neither picked up nor responded to.