United Airlines has blamed the diversion of one of its flights which was headed for Abuja on Sunday but ended up in Asaba on bad weather.
Achilleus-Chud Uchegbe, Head of Corporate Communications, United Nigeria Airlines, made the clarification to BusinessDay after reports on social media claimed the airline’s pilot was given a wrong flight plan.
Uchegbe said the information being portrayed on social media was false.
BusinessDay’s checks show that the plane landed and cabin crew didn’t update passengers.
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On Sunday, one of the travellers with the name Peacock and tweeter handle @dawisu stated that “We departed Lagos about an hour ago on @flyunitedng to Abuja and upon arrival, the cabin crew confidently announced that we’ve arrived Abuja only for us to realise we landed in Asaba. Apparently, our pilot was given wrong flight plan from Lagos.”
The statement has since generated various comments on social media, blaming the airline for not doing due diligence.thanks!
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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.
