Aviation experts who met at the 13th Akwaaba African Travel Market ‘Aviation Day’ in Lagos on Monday brainstormed on the progress made in the area of safety in the industry over the years. They came to the conclusion that there have been a lot of improvements in air safety in the industry since 2006 when the […]
Aviation industry experts said investigations have confirmed that 80 percent of the accidents that happened in Nigeria were caused by pilot error. They also acknowledged that there has been improvement in safety in Nigeria’s air transport industry in the last five years, climaxing in 2016 and expressed the hope that the country would continue to […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has expressed optimism that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will renew Nigeria’s Category 1 Safety Status which enables her registered aircraft to fly to the United States. A source from the NCAA told THISDAY that from the scores which the team made available to the regulatory authority, Nigeria […]
It is expected that soon the new airport terminal at Abuja, Lagos and Kano airports would be put to use as the projects are nearing completion. In the past two years, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) had striven to meet international standard practices in airport security, facilitation and personnel development in order to […]
A combined team of officials from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and Singapore had arrived Nigeria to assist the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) to evaluate its Flight Safety Laboratory aimed at preventing air crashes and help in accident investigation. This was disclosed in Lagos by the the Commissioner of AIB, Akin Olateru who said […]
