President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Director General of the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET), Professor Sani Mashi and replaced him with Professor Bako Mansur. The President also reappointed the Commissioner and CEO of Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIN-N), Akin Olateru who ended his first tenure in December 2020 and appointed Captain Modibbo Alkali Mahmud as the […]
Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has announced that it has commenced investigation into the incident involving Air Peace Boeing 737-300 aircraft with registration number, 5N-BUQ,which had a tyre puncture after landing at Runway 18R and taxiing to destination on March 8, 2021. The aircraft with 127 passengers and six crew landed without causalities and taxied to the domestic […]
Air crashes are tragic. Every country prays it does not happen in its airspace. It is not only that lives are consumed, which is the saddest part, but also it diminishes the goodwill of the country, the airline and the aviation industry. It also leads to increase in aircraft insurance premium and ups the country’s […]
The Nigerian Aviation sector has mourned the immediate past Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), the late Captain Murtar Usman. Usman who died on Wednesday after a brief illness in a hospital in Zaria, Kaduna State was aged 64 years. In its twitter handle, NCAA wrote on its twitter handle, “The entire […]
The Commissioner of Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), Akin Olateru has given reasons why the agency did not deploy Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAE), known as drones to the site of the helicopter crash at Opebi, Lagos on August 28, 2020, saying the accident happened at enclosed area and the operators of the drone were yet to […]
