{"id":82673,"date":"2026-02-11T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82673"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:47:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:47:59","slug":"panic-arik-air-plane-suffers-engine-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/11\/panic-arik-air-plane-suffers-engine-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic: Arik Air Plane Suffers Engine Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Passengers aboard an Arik Air flight were thrown into panic on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, after the aircraft reportedly suffered an engine failure mid-air, forcing an emergency landing at the Benin Airport in Edo State.<\/p>\n<p>The plane had departed Lagos for Abuja when passengers said they heard a loud noise from one of the engines, followed by unusual vibrations.<\/p>\n<p>Tension reportedly spread in the cabin as the aircraft lost altitude and the pilot announced a diversion to Benin.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft landed safely at about 3:45 p.m., with emergency officials on standby at the airport. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Airport authorities confirmed that the aircraft was grounded for technical assessment, while engineers began inspections to determine the cause of the malfunction.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday evening, Arik Air had not issued an official statement on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Passengers aboard an Arik Air flight were thrown into panic on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, after the aircraft reportedly suffered an engine failure mid-air, forcing an emergency landing at the Benin Airport in Edo State. The plane had departed Lagos for Abuja when passengers said they heard a loud noise from one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82675,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82673\/revisions\/82675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}