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Old 8th Jul 2015, 01:04
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It's been a while since I visited Lagos, but I remember that armed police in a 4WD had to follow each aircraft out to the threshold for a while because gangs in pick up trucks were opening the aft cargo holds while the aircraft was taxiing and throwing the baggage out onto the taxiway, to be scooped up and thrown into vehicles, which promptly skeddadled off beyond the wire.

Wasn't it Lagos where the Lufthansa crew were robbed on the way to (or it might have been from) the crew hotel in the crew bus? The robbers took everything - including the uniforms the crew were wearing.

Not my favourite layover. I have a recollection of the main bar in the crew hotel - it was like a scene from that Nicholas Cage movie about the gun runner (the one where the AN2 is stripped down to its wheels overnight). Seth Efrican mercs (or, far more likely, wannabes trying their best to look like Seth Efrican mercs) and local hookers, all sitting in a cigarette-smoke cloud that was almost down to waist level.
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