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NCAA set to ground erring private jet owners ...May slam $100,000 fine


Foreign registered aircraft operating in Nigeria found guilty of violating aviation rules in the country would have to pay a fine of $100,000,Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.-NCAA warned yesterday.
The fine ,is part of the recommendations of the committee set up by the Aviation Minister, Chief Osita Chidoka, to look into the operations of foreign-registered, private aircraft in the country.
The Director-General of NCAA, Captain Muhtar Usman, said the authority is ready to begin sanction erring operators.
Sanctions to include grounding of operations, revocation of licence and outright seizure of aircraft. The use of these operators’ aircraft for commercial operations is at variance with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulation, Nig.CARs 9.1.1.4[a][b] which is tantamount to gross violation, he added.
The DG maintained  that all private operators who have been issued with NCAA’s Flight Operations Clearance Certificate (FOCC) and Maintenance Clearance Certificate (MCC) in line with Nig.CARs 8.2.1.9, are by these certification only authorised to operate within Nigeria strictly for private operation, and not for hire and reward.
The  NCAA boss however said that there is still room  for the affected foreign-registered privately-operated aircraft owners to regularise their documents in order to operate a legitimate commercial operation in line with the authority’s regulation.
Most of the affected operators of recent have been caught operating commercial flights thereby denying the government of some accruable revenue,apart from the security implication of their unwholesome practices.

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