son of late Chief Agagu, who is one of the survivors of the ill fated
Associated Airlines flight, disclosed how Feyi and the other survivors cheated death and why Agagu’s casket was intact!
“The young man said that once they got to the tarmac
before boarding and once he sighted the plane, what struck him was the
seemingly very old look of the plane. Feyi said he didn’t like the looks
of the plane. He also said but for the importance and significance of
the trip, his inner sense didn’t feel comfortable boarding the plane.
“In fact, Feyi said he told another survivor, Femi
Akinsanya, that the plane looked too old and he didn’t feel like
boarding. But Feyi said he was told not to get himself worked up
needlessly since this was not going to be his first time aboard a plane
neither would this be the first old-looking plane that he would board.
That was how he said he boarded the plane”.
“Feyi recounted how he and Femi Akinsanya boarded the
plane and moved straight to the back end to take up seats. Why Feyi
chose the back seat”, the source said, “was more a function of his state
of mind about the state of the plane rather than a preference for
taking a back seat.
“When they sat down, Feyi told me that
he and Femi simply prayed that they should just take off and land
safely, oblivious of what lay ahead of them. “Feyi said once they took
off, everything happened so fast. What he also told me was that both he
and Femi noticed what looked like a crack not far from where they sat at
the rear end of the plane.
“He said everything happened so fast that by the time the
plane crashed on the ground, it was that crack that had been noticed
earlier that transformed into a gapping exit point upon impact on the
ground.
“Feyi said the exit point created was where he and Femi escaped through”.
Also, explaining why the casket carrying Agagu’s corpse was intact
after the plane crashed on Thursday morning, it was disclosed that the
casket was latched to the hooks in the cargo compartment of the plane
and was placed in the rear end of the plane.