Planes are engineered to take a remarkable amount of punishment Credit: istock Aviation

How Far Do Planes Fall During Turbulence?

Turbulence is the most common cause of injury to air passengers, and unsettles even the most frequent fliers – as passengers on an Air Canada flight this week found out to their detriment when the aircraft dropped violently, injuring 37 – but is it really something to be afraid of? British Airways captain Steve Allright, and Patrick […]

Dana Air Apologizes to passengers over flight disruptions

Dana Air has apologized to its customers over the disruption of their flights on different routes Thursday , Friday and Saturday.    The airline in statement issued by its media and Communications Manager Kingsley Ezenwa  said some of the airline’s scheduled flights were disrupted due to nose steering lock on one of its Abuja to […]

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Revisiting Issues of Aero Politics

  Last Friday Air Peace marked inaugural flight to Dubai via Sharjah as its first foray into international operations. Air Peace was not the first Nigerian carrier to operate to Dubai. In fact, the Dubai route was largely opened for West Africa by the defunct Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL) before it became a popular destination. […]

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Operators Harp on Local Aircraft Maintenance Facility

Aviation experts have called the attention of the federal government and warned that Nigerian airlines would continue to have short lifespan of average 10 years, unless comprehensive maintenance, overhaul and repair facility (MRO) is built in the country. The experts posited that the cost of major aircraft maintenance, which is largely done overseas, was responsible […]