Minnie is waiting: no electricity no luggage It is Wednesday night at Muritala Muhammad International Airport, around 8PM. It is the time of arrival of three flights from Europe. The weather is fair, cool actually, with 25 degree Celsius. Landing, alighting the aircraft, going through vaccination check and then queuing up for immigration goes relatively smoothly. Interestingly, the luggage delivery area is in the dark, as one can see from the immigration area which is separated from the luggage area by a two-meter high wall only. Slowly but surely the area of luggage delivery fills up in the dark, only lit up by the nearby immigration area and a battery-powered Air France sign set-up above one of the delivery belts. Passengers are waiting and start commenting on the possible causes and consequences of the delivery area black-out: - the belt is not powered so it can't circulate luggages so that passengers can pick them up - even if the luggages were brought on carriages, n...
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