Sky Bird Air Gulfstream GIV incident
Gulfstream GIV · Incident: runway excursion during landing
From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (DNMM) to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (DNAA)
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR18WA277
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Gulfstream GIV
- Aircraft type
- Gulfstream GIV
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 5N-BOD
- Operator
- Sky Bird Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (DNMM), LagosTo Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (DNAA), Abuja
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Landing · landing roll
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Runway excursion
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
On September 12, 2018, at 2110 coordinated universal time, a Gulfstream GIV airplane, registration 5N-BOD, was not damaged during a runway excursion at Nnamdi Akizkiwe International Airport (DNAA), Abuja, Nigeria. The flight crew and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated under the pertinent civil regulations for the government of Nigeria.
The Nigerian Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) is investigating the incident. As the state of manufacture of the airplane, the NTSB has designated a US accredited representative to assist the AIB in its investigation.
All inquiries concerning this incident should be directed to:
AIB Safety House
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
P.M.B. 016
Ikeja, Lagos
Nigeria
http://www.aib.gov.ng/
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR18WA277
- Event ID
- 20180930X74327
- Case number
- WPR18WA277
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: damage. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 22a64707e0e61d2ffaca97e475148b9ea761428c367893ad938c5a94be593fc9; retrieved 2026-09-16T08:17:05.507Z.