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.
