Preparatory to the commencement of Aeronautical Information Services (AIS) Automation, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has embarked on the training of various categories of personnel in order to build adequate capacity needed for its deployment. Already, the first batch of six personnel have proceeded to Frankfurt, Germany for a three-week Train-the-Trainer Course on Map/Chart/e-AIP […]
THE Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has been lauded for effectively enhancing the safety of air travel within the nation’s airspace. Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha who made these remarks at the New Imo Concorde Hotel, venue of the recently concluded Airspace Managers’ Forum, which held in Owerri, the Imo State capital, expressed delight […]
Boeing has been awarded a $127 million U.S. Air Force contact modification for work on the Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program. The deal covers phase 2, pre-milestone B activities. In the announcement, the Pentagon said the modification is another step in a deliberate process to control program risk and life cycle costs. The contract involves conducting […]
The US Coast Guard rescued two pilots, a man and woman, in the ocean off Hawaii on Friday, nearly a day after the plane they were in disappeared from radar. “What a way to celebrate aloha Friday,” Coast Guard spokeswoman Tara Molle said of the relief of finding the two alive. “We all had big smiles on […]
The word “fire” is heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir 804 before the plane crashed into the Mediterranean in May, an Egyptian-led investigative committee said Saturday. Investigators had earlier said the other black box retrieved from the crash site, the data recorder, confirmed that smoke alarms had sounded on board, while soot […]
