Bishop David Oyedepo
Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, otherwise known as Winners’ Chapel, on Friday chronicled his escape from a recent incident that could have led to a crash of the plane that he was travelling in.
LR News learnt that Oyedepo was
travelling from Cyprus to Israel in company with his wife and three other key
members of the church.
He described the incident in a written testimony
read out to the congregation by a church member during a thanksgiving service
at the Canaanland headquarters of the church in Ota, Ogun State.
According
to the testimony, it was the third potential plane crash that the bishop would
escape.
He said the first was an incident in 1997 while travelling
from Kaduna to Lagos while the second was during a Lagos flight to Kano in
1998.
In the 1997 incident, Oyedepo said “all hell
broke loose” and “landing in Lagos became impossible” during a heavy
thunderstorm.
He said the aircraft went up and down as the
captain attempted to land during several attempts until he eventually landed.
He said, “In the second incident, one engine of
our aircraft failed in-flight. On May 4, 1998, we were on a flight to Kano when
I noticed our plane was going down. I went to the cockpit to ask the pilot what
was going on. Then, he announced that we just lost one engine.
“Calmly, I told him to make a turn back to Lagos.
We were eight on board. As soon as we landed and we were at our packing space,
we heard a sound that announced the death of the second engine.”
In the third and recent incident, Oyedepo said
the cause of the incident was a stabiliser trim motor failure, according to the
report of the captain, Samuel Adeboga.
The bishop said, “After the failure, the
auto-pilot could no longer exact the required pressure to keep the aircraft in
the required altitude for stability.
“The captain disconnected the auto-pilot and
returned the aircraft to the required altitude for that phase of flight.
Because the aircraft was out of trim, during the take-over, the aircraft
abruptly pitched up with much G-force and the captain counter-acted it with a
pitch downforce.
“These two counter-forces caused the abrupt
turbulence and movement in the cabin and the cargo hold. Heavy items in the cargo
hold fell from their compartments and made loud bang noise. We thank the God of
this great commission for making the pilot act promptly. Similar incidents in
the past have resulted in fatal accidents and loss of life.”
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