PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT INVOLVING A BOEING 737- 300 AIRCRAFT, REGISTRATION MARKS 5N-BQO OCCURED ON 23RD JULY, 2019

On the 23rd of July 2019, at about 10:38 h; a Boeing 737-300 aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BQO owned and operated by Air Peace Limited departed Port Harcourt International Airport (DNPO), Port Harcourt as flight APK7191 for Murtala Muhammed International Airport (DNMM) Lagos. It was a scheduled flight, operating on an Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) flight plan with six (6) crew members and one hundred and thirty-three (133) passengers. The First Officer was the Pilot Flying (PF) while the Captain was the Pilot Monitoring (PM). The aircraft landed on the nose gear causing the nose wheel to break off on landing runway 18R, at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.