There was pandemonium at the
Muritala Muhammed International
Airport (MMIA) Lagos, yesterday
evening when four passengers who
arrived the city from Atlanta in the
United States of America, collapsed due
to excessive heat at the arrival hall of
the airport terminal.
According to Leadership Newspaper,
the passengers, who had arrived
aboard Delta Airline, were waiting for
baggage reclaim when the 4 who had
just arrived from the US where the
temperature is much cooler, got
overwhelmed by the heat in the arrival
area and collapsed.
A source close to the Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority (NCAA) told
LEADERSHIP Weekend that the cooling
system at the airport was not working
when the incident happened and that it
might be due to the current remodelling
of the airport.
It was learnt that two of the passengers
were rushed to an undisclosed hospital
in an ambulance belonging to the
Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria
(FAAN)
In his reaction to the development, the
general manager, public affairs of
FAAN, Yakubu Dati, said the situation
was exaggerated by online reports.
Another FAAN official contacted who
preferred anonymity said the unhealthy
situation at the arrival hall of the airport
was not new to most air travellers who
had had to contend with it as they
passed through immigration and
baggage collection.
For those coming from Europe it
is like coming from an extremely
cold environment to an extremely
hot environment and passengers
have to sweat it out as they go
through immigration formalities
and then through the tortuous
collection of their in luggage,” he
said.
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