Report on the Serious Incident involving an Emirates Boeing 777-200 aircraft with registration mark A6- EWD and a parked Boeing 737-400 aircraft belonging to HAK Air with registration mark 5N-BOU which occurred at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on 6th July, 2015

On 6th July 2015 at 20:53hrs, Emirates Flight UAE782, a Boeing 777, registration A6- EWD, scheduled passenger flight, Lagos to Dubai, with 15 crew and 285 passengers on board, called the Tower for start-up. The Tower replied the call at 20:54:11hrs and advised the crew at 21:03:32hrs, that runway (RWY) 18R/36L was unserviceable due to maintenance work being carried out on the runway edge lights.

The Captain was the Pilot Monitoring while the First Officer was the Pilot Flying.