Leader of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority inspectors, Group Capt. E. C. Agu (right) and his colleagues during Air Peace’s emergency evacuation and ditching demonstrations at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Thursday Aviation

Air Peace Scales Safety Audit for B777 Operations

Air Peace on Thursday scaled a major regulatory hurdle in its path to international flight services, successfully performing the partial emergency evacuation and ditching demonstrations as part of the safety tests for the operation of its Boeing 777 aircraft. Emergency aircraft evacuation refers to an exercise aimed at evacuating those on an aircraft when an emergency occurs on the […]

NCAA, NACENI Partner for Local Manufacture of Helicopters

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has partnered with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to provide relevant guides in its plan to produce Made-in-Nigeria helicopters. Besides, the agency charged with the responsibility of fast-tracking home-initiated industrialization, has placed an order for a Dynali H3 easy flyer sport ultralight helicopter for the […]

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Aviation Agencies Groan under N45bn Debt by Airlines

  Aviation agencies, including Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), are unable to replace obsolete airport equipment, resurface dilapidated runways and provide other amenities to the airports, because of N45 billion debt owed by domestic airlines, THISDAY has learnt. THISDAY gathered that with […]

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AIB releases four accident reports, issues safety recommendations to FAAN, NCAA

The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has released four accident and serious incident reports, which occurred in the country between July 2004 and August 2015. This is as Engr. Akin Olateru, the Commissioner of AIB said that the current administration has achieved 52.1 per cent on publication of accident and serious incident reports and 47.4 per […]