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Royal Air Maroc flight’s baggage cabin discovered open while landing – FAAN

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A Royal Air Maroc flight with registration number CN – ROR landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 0404hours today October 11, 2019, with its baggage cabin door opened.

In a statement sent by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, (FAAN) confirming the incident, Aviation security officials who escorted the aircraft upon landing noted that although all necessary security landing procedures were observed and there was no invader around the aircraft, they suspected the opening must have been as a result of forced landing.

“Further investigation revealed that all passengers on the flight got their luggage intact, except for a certain Tazi Larbi, whose luggage with tag number 829116 did not come on the flight because it was left in Morocco.

“Appropriate agencies have however commenced an investigation into the incident to ascertain the cause.

“The aircraft pushed back at about 0530 hours and was airborne to Morrocco at 0540 hours,” the statements added.