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RESTORATION OF POWER AT MMA

 9^th May, 2010
 

 

 

At about 4.30 pm today Sunday May 9, 2010, there was an  outage at the International wing of the Murtala muhammed  Airport, Lagos.  The cause of the outage was discovered to be a short circuit of
seven of the cables supplying power to the Terminal  building.

There are three sources of power supply to the  International Terminal building namely K16, K17 and K18. The problem occured because of short circuit of about seven  cables on the K16, which led to the tripping of power supply  to some of the areas in the Terminal building.  The K16 source of power, feeds the D and E-Fingers, Arrival  and Departure Halls of the Terminal building.

However, light was restored to the E-Finger immediately. After the separation of the seven cables, the power  system was energised and the Arrival and Departure halls'  power were restored. Our suppliers were contacted immediately we discovered the  fault that caused the outage, and they supplied the cables that were used to currently solve the problem.

 

The management of FAAN appeals to the travelling public to bear with us for the inconveniences occasioned by this  unfortunate incident.
 
Akin Olukunle,
GM, Public Affairs.