Aviation News

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA) has said reportage concerning the tyre burst incident of Max Air flight NGL1649, yesterday  May 7, 2023  erroneously reported as a crash landing was inaccurate. This is just as the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has decried the sensational reporting of the incident saying such exaggerated report creates unnecessary fears in the minds …

The Runway 04/ 22 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja which was hitherto closed following an emergency landing by an aircraft belonging to Max Air flying from Yola today is set for reopening. NigerianFLIGHTDECK gathered the recovery team at the NAIA has removed the disabled aircraft and the runway is being inspected and swept for reopening. The aircraft was said …

The League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) has alerted the aviation community, stakeholders, captain of industries on the 27th edition of the annual Conference. Stakeholders in Nigeria’s aviation industry will on Thursday, July 27, 2023, assemble at Providence Hotel, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos for the conference with the theme: ‘Aviation Industry: Changing Times, Changing Strategies.’ A joint statement issued by …

The incursion of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) into Nigeria’s aviation industry under the guise debt recovery has been criticised as the airline has spent years in two airlines, Arik Air and Aero Contractors and making them worse than when they met them. President/ CEO of Sabre West Africa, Dr. Gabriel Olowo who described AMCON’s position as a …

Managing director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria ( FAAN), Captain Rabiu Hamisu Yadudu has said the agency had no choice but to take the action it did as it was not only a safety violation but a hindrance to recertification of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. He made this known stressing that when FAAN got certification the encroachment …

President/ CEO of Sabre West Africa, Dr. Gabriel Olowo has queried the motive behind the proliferation of state owned airports in Nigeria, especially the haste to commission incomplete infrastructure calling on state governments to focus on other things and leave aviation be. Dr. Olowo who also doubles as the President of Aviation Round Table Safety Initiative ( ART) equally stated …

House of Representatives Committee on Aviation will tomorrow, Friday, 5th of May, 2023 dispatch a fact-finding team to the Runview, Ajao Estate Lagos where Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in collaboration with the Lagos State Government commenced demolition of houses allegedly obstructing safety and security of flight operations. The committee had on Wednesday summoned the management of FAAN following …

Two hundred and seventy- seven ( 277) Nigerians were airlifted out of Egypt amidst the ongoing crisis in Sudan in an evacuation by Air Peace the evacuation flight arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, around 23:00hrs on Wednesday, May 3, 2023. The airline which deployed one of its wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft with Registration Number 5N-BVE, to operate …

Commissioner Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Bureau ( BAGAIA), Engineer Charles Irikefe Erhueh has proposed Cloud computing technology as a means of data storage to aid in improving aircraft accident investigation. This is just as Erhueh said BAGAIA has made a Proposal for Flight Data Analysis Capability for Member States for the purpose of carrying out aircraft accident investigation. The …

Airline alleges N400m loss so far Air Peace has cried out over what it describes as lack of protection for its operations following a massive disruption of the airline’s operations into Owerri, the Imo state capital from Lagos and Abuja and vice-versa over a dispute unions had with the Governor of the State, Hope Uzodinma. The airline in a statement …