Boeing 737-200 crash, Oct 15, 1988, Port Harcourt
Boeing 737-200 accident on October 15, 1988 near Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria with no fatalities. Cause: Landing in heavy rain, with the aircraft...
- Date: October 15, 1988
- Aircraft: Boeing 737-200
- Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Landing in heavy rain, with the aircraft unable to stop within the remaining runway and overrunning it.
On 15 October 1988 a Nigeria Airways Boeing 737 on a scheduled flight from Jos landed in heavy rain at Port Harcourt and could not stop within the remaining runway. It overran, and its nose and right main landing gear collapsed on soft ground. No one was killed, 36 occupants were injured, and the aircraft was written off.