The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has confirmed the mid-flight incident suffered by United Airlines Flight UA614 on Thursday, January 23, when it left the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to Washington, United States, but was forced to declare emergency and made air return after about two hours of flight out of the departure airport. […]
A Max Air fight VM1623 with registration number 5N-BBM, on Thursday, suffered ‘engine abnormality during its ascent and had to make an emergency landing, known in the industry as air return. The airline said the flight crew, following established procedures, shut down the affected engine and safely returned to Maiduguri International Airport and all passengers […]
Azman Air flight from Lagos to Maiduguri en-route Abuja was on Thursday forced to make air return when the aircraft landing gear refused to retract after takeoff. THISDAY learnt that the pilot explained to passengers that the gear pin was not removed before the aircraft took off to enable the landing gear to retract so […]
*NCAA Renews Airline’s Operations Licence A passenger’s false smoke alarm promoted the pilot in command of Air Peace Lagos-Owerri flight to abort flight to destination and returned to base. This was disclosed in a statement by the spokesman of the airline, Chris Iwarah who explained that the passenger claimed to be smelling smoke in […]
