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 (...
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A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 224 passengers had to be evacuated after it missed the runway on landing at Kathmandu airport early today and skidded onto nearby grassland. Aviation officials said no one on board was injured, although one witness described how terrified passengers leapt from their seats as the cabin filled with smoke after the plane skidded to a halt. The airport has now been closed except to helicopters, spokesman Purna Prasad Chudal said, adding that visibility was reasonable despite fog earlier in the day. Chudal said the pilot overshot the runway during an initial attempt to land, before making a second try that sent the plane skidding off the tarmac. "As the plane approached, it somehow missed the runway and ended up in the grassland area," said the airport's general manager Birendra Prasad Shrestha. "All 224 passengers have been evacuated, no injuries, everyone is safe," Shrestha told AFP.
ABDULSALAM;NAMA Md clocks 365 days in office ...staff rate him high on welfare Ahead of its first anniversary coming up on Wednesday, the 4 th of March 2015, k ey players in the Abdulsalam administration have been speaking on the performance of NAMA in the past one year which they have rated very high. According to the Legal Adviser, Mrs Anastasia Gbem , what drives success is quality of leadership and Engr. Abdulsalam has exhibited this abundantly in his bid to take NAMA to the top as a leading ANSP in Africa, adding that the legal department has provided the needed guidance on most of the key decisions taken in the past year, leading to some of the gains so far recorded by the agency. For t he Director of Operations, Mr Segun Ogunmola , NAMA within this period has done very well in addressing v...
On being informed of the intention of the Nigerian Aviation Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) to withdraw services starting from 4.00 pm on February 27, 2015, a conciliatory meeting was promptly held by the Honourable Supervising Minister of Labour & Productivity, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, FCIArb on the same day. 2. During the meeting, the overview of the issues in dispute from the perspectives of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN)/NATCA and the Management of Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) were noted respectively. 3. Subsequently, the issues covered by the Communiqué signed at the end of the meeting between NAMA Management, ATSSS...
By: STEPHEN TRIMBLE WASHINGTON DC Boeing vice-president Randy Tinseth says the company has studied reviving and re-engining the 757 “a couple” of times, but concluded that the economics do not make sense. “We’re not studying 757 re-engined replacements right now. It just doesn’t work,” says Tinseth, addressing the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance (PNAA) conference in Seattle . Tinseth was asked to respond to a report in the Wall Street Journal that cited a source within Boeing saying a re-engined 757 was one option being considered as the company’s response to the long-range Airbus A321neo. “No, no,” Tinseth replied. In Boeing’s view, the 757 replacement market is limited. There are 550 passenger-carrying 757s still in operation, Tinseth says, excluding about 200-250 freighters. Of that market, only about 50-80 are flying trans-atlantic routes that exceed the maximum range of the 737 Max 9 or baseline...
by David Learmount About 14% of pilots flying for European airlines are self-employed or work for temporary work agencies (TWA), according to a European Commission funded study by the University of Ghent, which says that proportion is growing. The first conference held to examine this social phenomenon is being held in Paris on 12-13 February. It will be interesting to see what conclusions are reached about the practice. It’s perfectly legal, just another of those techniques modern multinational multi-base carriers can use to exploit the fact that laws and taxes stop at national borders, like the cop-cars in the Bonnie and Clyde movie screech to a halt at state boundaries. The study, carried out between September and November 2014 received responses from a total of 6,633 pilots, estimated to be some 10% of the known European professional pilot population. Some 5.4% of European pilots are in what Ghent University terms “atypical employment” involving a contra...
By: DAVID LEARMOUNT LONDON Source: Flightglobal.com British Airways and the UK Civil Aviation Authority have been given 56 days (until 13 April) to reply to a Coroner’s “Report to Prevent Future Deaths”, that the December 2012 death of a BA pilot, Richard Westgate, was associated with the presence in his body of organophosphate toxins that are present in aircraft cabin air. The report makes a series of statements about the presence of toxins in cabin air and their potential effects on occupants, then demands statements from both organisations about what they intend to do to prevent further such deaths. The Senior Coroner for the County of Dorset, where the Westgate case is being heard, has advised BA and the CAA of his “matters of concern”, including: “That organophosphate compounds are present in cabin air; that the occupants of aircraft cabins are exposed to organophosphate compounds with consequential damage to their health; that impairment of the...