It was not the kind of news you expected when it rode on the wings of the evening breeze of Thursday, May 15, 2025. The opening months of the year have been bad enough with reference to the very sad, untimely departures of well-known colleagues with whom we served in the administration of former President […]
At the beginning, air travel was esoteric in Africa and it was awe inspiring and seemed very elusive. The great Nelson Mandela wrote in his book, ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ that he was apprehensive when he saw the first black pilot in his life in cockpit of the aircraft that was flying him. It was […]
International Aviation College (IAC), Ilorin has graduated 10 Officers from the Nigerian Army Aviation and 9 Civilians who have successfully completed their Private Pilot License (PPL) Training. Speaking on behalf of the State Governor, the Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Hajia Sa’adatu Modibo Kawu congratulated the Graduands and urged them to uphold the virtue of aviation […]
The preliminary report of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has indicted Max Air of overwriting the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the serious incident, which occurred on May 7, 2023 on landing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja. The report also accused the airline of feigning ignorance of the Nigeria Civil Aviation […]
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 […]
