Author: Wole Shadare

  Passengers express worry    Concerned about the recurring incidents involving Nigeria’s biggest carrier, Air Peace, the aviation regulatory body, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has commenced audit of the airline. The public has also expressed worry over frequent incidents associated with the airline in recent times. They stated that this could erode passengers’ confidence in air travel. Air Peace had been involved in three serious incidents in less than six months which followed almost the…

As part of efforts to improve service delivery across airports in the country, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said it is determined to improved service delivery to ensure passengers have value for their money. This is just as the agency said it has established a Management Taskforce on Service Delivery . The Managing Director FAAN, Capt Rabiu Yadudu, who  disclosed this during  an interactive forum at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed…

…Says Captain noticed warning signals Medview Airline has given a graphic picture of what happened to its aircraft which was involved in an incident leading to depressurisation while descending from 32000ft altitude. Aircraft depressurisation events are rare, but they can occur with little or no warning. The faster passengers put on their oxygen mask on, the better the chance that they will stay safe and remain capable of helping others. Depressurisation occurs in a matter of…

Crew carried out emergency descent procedure-AIB . Two days after Air Peace Boeing 737 was involved in an accident that saw its front collapsed, another Nigerian carrier, Medview Airlines B737-500 aircraft with registration 5N-BQM was involved in a serious incident en-route Lagos from Abuja One of the passengers who called New Telegraph yesterday said he just has a ‘crazy experience on  my Medview flight into Lagos”. The pilot, he said was making announcement as the plane…

For divine intervention, passengers onboard escaped unhurt as an Air Peace flight from Port Harcourt airport made a forceful landing in Lagos. Our correspondent gathered that the B737 aircraft dropped from about 20 feet into the Lagos airport runway causing substantial damage to the plane’s front wheel. The forceful landing LED to burst front tyre. As at the time of filing this report, the Accident Investigation Bureau are inspecting the accident. AIB said it would…

Arik Air, Nigeria’s leading airline has introduced a special fare for members of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. The applicable fare starts from N20, 000.00 for one-way economy class ticket on any of Arik Air’s domestic routes. The fare is applicable to all categories of serving and retired personnel of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. The Armed Forces covered by the scheme are Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Air Force. The scheme, which is…

 The intrusion into the runway of Lagos airport by a foreigner, who was found close to a fully loaded aircraft, has again exposed security lapses at Nigerian airports, as the nation’s aviation security system constantly fails to anticipate threats, writes WOLE SHADARE Caught napping Not only the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) saw the incursion into a sensitive part of Lagos airport where a Nigerien, Usman Adamu, beat security architecture to crawl out and climb…

Following the breach of aviation security by an intruder identified as a Nigerien national last Friday, the secretary general of Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals (ANAP)  Abdulrasaq Saidu has called on the government to commence total overhaul of aviation security across airports in the country. Speaking in an interview in Lagos over the weekend, Saidu lamented that those in authorities have not learned various calls and warnings from unions to recruit aviation security and fire…

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has split successfully the Lagos  Sub-Flight Information Region (Sub-FIR) airspace into two sectors: Lagos West Area Control Centre on 120.9MHz radio frequency and Lagos East Area Control Centre on 127.3MHz frequency.  The agency disclosed that the sectorization which took off at exactly 00.01 UTC on last week Thursday was a culmination of a two-year strategic plan by the agency to achieve sectored operations in the Lagos sub-FIR owing to the…