Faulty Airplane Blocks Runway, Halting All Traffic at Yola Airport.

Yola International Airport has prohibited any inbound or outbound aircraft since Sunday night due to a small-scale incident that occurred on the runway. According to reports, an airplane's tires burst while it was trying to take off from the airport on Sunday night, creating a traffic jam.

A tire rupture on a Max Air aircraft that was reportedly taxiing for takeoff caused it to come to a stop on the runway, preventing other aircraft from landing or taking off from the airport. When the ground incident impacting all of the flight's tires occurred, the Max Air aircraft—which was carrying 119 passengers and six crew members—had been cleared to take off from the Yola airport on its way to Abuja.

The damaged aircraft will be evacuated soon, according to Mrs. Ijeoma Nwosu-Igbo, the Assistant General Manager of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), who made this announcement over the phone on Monday afternoon. She was unable to predict when the removal would take place right away.

However, another source at the Yola airport claimed that engineers had arrived at the airport to fix the malfunctioning aircraft when this report was filed, just before 5 p.m. on Monday.