Aviation

Crew contacted tower, requested emergency landing Airline orders probe A pall of smoke engulfed the cabin of a Lagos bound Aero Contractors aircraft, leading to panic by passengers.   Some of the passengers who spoke to Woleshadare.net said panic gripped virtually all of them thinking the plane was going to crash. They however praised the efficiency of the crew in calming hysteric passengers.   It was learnt that mid-way into the flight, the cabin of…

Capt Ore, others pay tribute One of Nigeria’s wealthiest airline owners, Alhaji Ahmadu Chanchangi is dead. He was 80 years old. He was chairman of Chanchangi Airlines, one of the domestic airlines that dominated the Nigerian aviation industry and was reputed to be the biggest airline in the late 2000. The Taraba-born, Kaduna based billionaire died along Kaduna-Abuja road while on his way to a hospital in Abuja this morning. The late businessman was said to…

Air Medical Group Holdings, Inc. (AMGH), a leading medical transport and emergency medical service provider, has agreed to acquire Air Medical Resource Group (AMRG) of South Jordan, Utah. AMRG has operations in 15 states, including Alaska and Hawaii.   Lewisville-based AMGH already has hundreds of critical care aircraft in operation. With the acquisition of AMRG it will add 62 bases and new geographies to its customer service footprint.   “AMGH is delighted to add AMRG’s…

The Director General of Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET),  Prof. Sani Abubakar Mashi, has advocated better use of climate information in agriculture if Nigeria is to rebuild the sector and make it sustainable.   Mashi made this recommendation, while presenting a paper titled Agrometeorological Service Delivery forSustainable Agricultural Development in Nigeria to participants of the Senior Executive Course (SEC) No.39, 2017 Programme at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Plateau state.    Mashi noted…

Government is at a crossroads on what to do with Arik Air, having injected N1.5 billion since it took over the carrier. It’s time to take far reaching decision on the airline’s future, writes WOLE SHADARE   Arik on life support   For those who don’t know, Arik Air is currently dying a slow death and here are some of the signs. The airline has just five aircraft from the over 29 it acquired when…

Breaking news:   The first aircraft has landed on the N5.5b rehabilitated Abuja airport runway. The airplane belonging to The Nigerian Police with registration 5N-HAR airlifted the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika to the airport from Kaduna at 11.05am.     Ethiopian Airways is expected to land at noon. Sirika said he was happy that the project finished in record time. Detail shortly

*Ethiopian, first to land in Abuja, as aerodrome opens tomorrow   The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) will tomorrow begin the calibration of the navigational aids at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja in readiness for resumption of flight operations on Tuesday, according to its Managing Director, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu. The resumption of flights tomorrow would come ahead of Wednesday’s deadline originally planned for the opening of the facility. This is coming as Ethiopian Airways flight…

**Call for arrest of Arik promoters’ heightens **Nigerians wait for KPMG’s report-Ore A groundswell of condemnation has trailed the mismanagement of Arik Airline following additional revelations by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) that the former management of the carrier systematically plunged the airline into N387bn debts. Former Director of Flight Operations, Capt. Dele Ore heaped the blame on the door step of Sir Johnson Arumeni-Ikhide allegedly appropriating what he said was the property of Nigerians. …