Nigeria, July 25 -- Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has sympathised with passengers of the Enugu Air airplane which suffered a runway excursion in Benin City, Edo State.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that an Enugu Air Embraer E170, operating Flight 4264 from Lagos, veered off the runway after landing at Benin Airport on Thursday.

Thd airline, owned by the Enugu State Government, confirmed that all 63 passengers and five crew members disembarked safely, and that no injuries or fatalities were recorded.

In his first public statement on the incident on Friday, Mr Mbah expressed joy that none of the passengers lost their life or sustained any injury during the incident.

"The government empathizes with the 63 passengers and five crew m...