Terrifying images captured Saturday night at Trabzon airport on Turkey’s northeast coast showed a passenger plane teetering precariously on a steep slope, its nose pointing toward the waters of the Black Sea below, after the jet skidded off the runway as it was attempting to land. Incredibly, none of the 168 passengers and crew members on board […]
The Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Muhtar Usman has explained the conditions, which domestic airlines must meet in order to benefit from the downward review of weather minima. Since January 4, 2018 a new weather minima regime started in Nigeria, which allowed for takeoff as low as 150 metres Runway Visual […]
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Asset Management Corporation of Niger (AMCON), Mr. Ahmed Kuru has called on aviation industry practitioners to patronise Aero Contractors’ MRO facility in Ikeja Lagos State, which made history at the weekend as the first ever carrier in Nigeria to conduct an aircraft C-check in the whole of West and […]
About 17 check-in luggage of the popular Nigerian music artist, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, have been impounded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos by security operatives. Informed source at the airport said the security operatives decided to impound the luggage following alleged attacks on Aviation Security (AVSEC), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) […]
For transforming a mere dream to reality, the aviation industry at the weekend was agog for Nigeria’s oldest airline, Aero Contractors when it rolled out and celebrated its successful conduct of c-check on Boeing 737 classic, the second in the history of Nigeria after the defunct Nigeria Airways Limited. The Boeing B737 aircraft […]