Oyedepo reveals how he recently cheated death in what was his third escape from a plane crash

LIVING Faith Church Worldwide founder Bishop David Oyedepo has revealed how he recently escaped death during a recent incident that could have led to an air crash involving an aeroplane that he was travelling in.

Apparently, Bishop Oyedepo was travelling from Cyprus to Israel in company with his wife and three other key members of the church. He described the incident in a written testimony read out to the congregation by a church member during a thanksgiving service at the Canaanland headquarters of the church in Ota, Ogun State.

According to the testimony, it was the third potential plane crash that the bishop would escape. Bishop Oyedepo said the first was an incident in 1997 while travelling from Kaduna to Lagos while the second was during a Lagos flight to Kano in 1998.

In the 1997 incident, Bishop Oyedepo said all hell broke loose and landing in Lagos became impossible during a heavy thunderstorm. He said the aircraft went up and down as the captain attempted to land during several attempts until he eventually landed.

Bishop Oyedepo said: “In the second incident, one engine of our aircraft failed in-flight. On May 4, 1998, we were on a flight to Kano when I noticed our plane was going down, so I went to the cockpit to ask the pilot what was going on and then, he announced that we just lost one engine.

“Calmly, I told him to make a turn back to Lagos. We were eight on board and as soon as we landed and we were at our packing space, we heard a sound that announced the death of the second engine.”

In the third and recent incident, David Oyedepo said the cause of the incident was a stabiliser trim motor failure, according to the report of the captain, Samuel Adeboga. He added that after the failure, the auto-pilot could no longer exact the required pressure to keep the aircraft in the required altitude for stability.