I think the following article clarifies the KQ incident
NCAA grounds Chanchangi, IRS airlines
Oluseto Olatuyi
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday grounded all Boeing 727 aircraft in the fleet of Chanchangi Airlines, following the crash-landing of one of its aircraft on Wednesday.
Chanchangi has five Boeing 727 aircraft, and two Boeing 737 in its fleet.
The regulatory authority also grounded the Boeing 747 aircraft of IRS scheduled for the hajj operations as a result of the failure of the airline to carry out the mandatory checks.
Chanchangi's Boeing 727 aircraft with registration number 5N BEU with about 81 persons, including the crew on board, crashed-landed on Wednesday when the nose wheel gear failed to eject.
The technical failure forced the pilot, Captain Bode Olubiyi, to declare an emergency.
Briefing newsmen on the development, the Media Assistant to the Director General of NCAA, Mr. Sam Adurogboye, said the Authority decided to ground the operations of all Boeing 727 on the airline's fleet to make sure they did not have a similar problem.
"We have suspended the operation of Chanchangi's 727 to check for the malfunctioning of the undercarriage. We want to find out if it affected other aircraft in the category," he said.
Adurogboye praised the pilot's experienced handling of the emergency situation without any damage to the aircraft or loss of life.
He added that the suspension, which does not have a time limit, would also enable NCAA to take a proper look at the documentation of the airline.
Meanwhile, normal activities have resumed on runway 19L, which was closed after the crash-landing.
Adurogboye said the runway had been cleared of the aircraft, while the foam used to prevent the occurrence of fire following the emergency landing had be washed away for inward bound flight.
Corroborating this, the General Manager, Public Affairs of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, Mr. Adamu Abdullahi, said, "Following the authorisation by the Accident Investigation and Prevention Bureau, the aircraft was removed and runway pavement cleared of debris and fire fighting media. The runway was re-opened to traffic at 11.55 pm on December 29, 2004."
Addressing the media earlier, the Coordinator/Public Relations Manager of Chanchangi, Alhaji Mohammed Tukur, said the airline would suspend operations of the affected five aircraft and would maintain skeletal services with the remaining two B737-200 in the airline's fleet.
Meanwhile, the Kenyan Airways aircraft presumed to have crash-landed on Wednesday at the same airport actually had a safe landing.
According to the Airport Manager, Mr. Obi Anadu, in a briefing, the aircraft landed around 10 am in the morning and was taxiing to the apron when a fire was noticed at its tail end.
He explained that the fire fighting officials overheard the communications between the crew members and the control tower and they quickly came to the rescue of the aircraft, and put out the fire.
On the IRS, Adurogboye said the airline was mandated to carry out a C-check on its aircraft parked at the Aminu Kano Airport since last year before it could be allowed to operate this year’s hajj.
Adurogboye, however, said the airline had been allowed to bring in another aircraft to replace the one on ground in Kano.
The Punch, Friday December 31, 2004