THE International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has appointed a Nigerian, Charles Irikefe Erhueh, a safety investigator with Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), as the new Commissioner of the Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency (BAGAIA). According to a statement from the spokesman of AIB, Tunji Oketunbi in Lagos yesterday, Erhueh was picked after a thorough recruitment […]
When the bill is passed in the National Assembly before the end o this year, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), a body responsible for the investigation of air accidents in Nigeria, would become a multimodal agency that would be empowered to carry out accident investigation in all means of transportation. This means that AIB would now […]
On Tuesday, the 23rd of July, 2019, at about 10.28 am an Air Peace B737-300 aircraft with Registration Marks 5N- BQO had an incident on landing at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) is currently carrying out an indepth investigation into the incident to determine the immediate and remote causes responsible for […]
There has been mixed reaction over the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB)’s alleged infraction by Air Peace for not reporting an incident involving its flight’s hard landing incident. The Bureau’s allegation suggested that the airline wanted to hide the incident even when it reported to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), which regulates the industry, the […]
The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has explained that the Gulfstream G IV operated by Skybird Airline, which overshot the runway Wednesday night at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, was caused by heavy downpour that waterlogged the runway. AIB said the pilot of the flight was not aware of the intensity of the rain and attributed […]
