November 2025, one of their jets suffered a nose gear fault landing in Enugu. Today, a different aircraft from the same fleet fails to stop on the runway in Benin all this less than a year apart. I am now finding Enugu airline as not a reliable carrier. And it is dangerous.
This is a pattern. And patterns in aviation are a maintenance story before they are ever a weather story.
Enugu Air is owned by the Enugu State government and that detail matters to everyone. A private airline that keeps crash landing planes loses customers and dies fast. A state owned carrier gets a press statement and a budget top up instead. The incentive to actually fix the problem is weaker when politics is footing the bill.
So here is what I want on record before this gets buried under the relief that nobody died.
Who signed off on 5N-ENR’s airworthiness before this flight. Did the November nose gear fault trigger a fleet wide inspection or did it get filed and forgotten. Is Enugu Air expanding routes faster than it is expanding its safety budget.
68 people walked off a plane today that should never have needed an emergency evacuation. That is the story and nobody should paint it as a miracle that they survived it.
