Overland plane which crashed landed in Ilorin have been in service for the past 21 years

Information has it that the Overland ATR-720202 5N-BMP plane which last Saturday crash landed at the Ilorin airport has been in operations  since May 1993 (that makes it 21 years).

 

The plane was first flown in May 1993, and was originally registered to Air Tahiti and later became part of the fleet of Air Corsica in France and left there in 1999.  The aircraft was later sold in Brazil to TRIP in Campinas, Sao Paolo.  After which Azul, another Brazilian Carrier based in Barueri bought it.

 

In 2013, Overland purchased the aircraft, 21 years after it was first flown.

 

The aircraft on Saturday took off from Abuja but veered off the runway after landing in Ilorin.

 

There were 59 passengers on board the aircraft at the time of the incident.  Fortunately, nobody was seriously injured.