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Bird Feathers, Blood Found In Both Engines Of Crashed South Korean Jeju Air Plane That Killed 179

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The airplane, on the way from Bangkok to Muan Province, tummy arrived at the provincial air terminal, overshooting the runway prior to blasting into flares after crashing into a bank. Examiners have found bird plumes and blood in the two motors of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed in South Korea last month, killing 179 individuals, a source acquainted with the examination revealed on Friday. The airplane, on the way from Bangkok to Muan Province, gut arrived at the territorial air terminal, overshooting the runway prior to blasting into flares after crashing into a bank. Notwithstanding, just two group individuals situated at the back of the airplane made due. Four minutes preceding the accident, one of the pilots revealed a bird strike and pronounced a crisis, South Korean flying specialists affirmed. The pilot endeavored a circumvent move and meant to arrive on the far edge of the runway however unfortunately fizzled. In the mean time, two minutes before the pilot's Mayday...
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Second Niger Bridge Users Will Pay Toll - FG

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The federal government on Wednesday, December 21, announced that pedestrians plying the recently opened Second Niger Bridge will pay toll. 

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) said the road will remain open till January 1 for inward travelers, and for those on outward journey from January 2 to 15. 

The bridge will be shut after January 15. Fashola said in an interview on Channels Television; 

 “Infrastructure is one of the instruments for economic growth and tackling multidimensional poverty.

“The purpose of the second Niger Bridge is to bring relief to Nigerians who traverse from east to west or west to east.

“Especially during the end of the year, we know that it is a logistics nightmare moving goods and services and people.

“The bridge itself is finished. The road linking it to the Obusi end on the Anambra side is finished, except for the interchange which is at different levels of completion. The road linking it to the Asaba side is the one that we could not finish.

“We know that it is a festive period; the ports are busy, sea and airports. The roads will also be busy. As part of the ember month plan, we decided to open it up and provide a choice for people (to either use the old bridge or the new one). We expect that it will relieve the inconvenience at this time of the year.

“We did the same thing on Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

“There is still work to be done there, but we think that it can get better if we remove the construction barriers so that it is a proper thorough fair.

“We did the same thing in Abuja-Kano. On Abuja-Kano, which is 365 km, we have only five obstructions, and they are for safety.

“The current opening (on the second Niger bridge) for motorists is for those going to the East and will end on the 1st of January. It is currently a one-way crossing.

“On January 2nd, we will reverse what we have done and allow people to use it from January 3rd, that is, for those going back from the East to West.

“On the 15th of January, we will shut it down again so that we can finish the 4 km access road that we are trying to build and also complete the interchanges.

“Inevitably, the bridge will be tolled. That is the job of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA).

“Part of what we are looking at is that we have a bridge that is properly maintained.”

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