AVIATION MEGAFORCE

Runway 022, Abuja remains a night mare for the foreign airlines that frequently complaints about the rutted runway surface which has caused structural damage to under carriage of most aircraft on landing. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) of recent, has been inundated with series of report from airlines like KLM, Emirates, British Airways and Ethiopian Airlines as well as some domestic carriers on the terrible nature of the runway. The poor state of the runway, if not rectified, an industry expert says may result in dangerous landing, excessive vibration, loss of control of aircraft and runway incursion on the useable portion. A committee with membership drawn from NAMA, FAAN and NCAA had come out with a suggestion of phasing the maintenance of the runway as total closure will not be possible because of political consideration. For total closure, Minna and Kaduna airports are   being considered as alternate airports. Both airports however, have ...

New Era in Safety Calls for Constant Information-Sharing to Handle Unprecedented Growth in Aviation Globally  Aviation safety today is undergoing a worldwide revolution in thinking and practice. With 90,000 commercial flights every day plus thousands of business aviation trips, officials are expanding beyond reactive efforts to predictive processes that can minimize future incidents. That's why  Flight Safety Foundation has launched a new, improved website  that provides an unequalled repository of trustworthy information and other resources. This state-of-the-art, mobile-responsive website lets aviation industry members access and apply the world's most comprehensive, up-to-date safety data and analysis from any device, anywhere. "All aviation stakeholders today need to be on constant guard against complacency by identifying and correlating small anomalies that can ultimately cause problems. Flight Safety Foundation is proud to be the industry's source for u...

      Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited (SAHCOL) announced on Monday in Lagos that  Ethiopian Airlines has moved its Cargo Operations to SAHCOL. The relocation will see that all import shipments on Ethiopian Airline flights to and from Lagos, Abuja and Kano are to be warehoused in the SAHCOL warehouses before clearance, while all export cargo on the Ethiopian Airline flights from all its destinations in Nigeria, are now to originate from the SAHCOL warehouses in the various locations. SAHCOL, which is an ISAGO (IATA) and RA3 (European Union) certified Ground Handling Company has recently made massive investments in state-of-the-art aviation ground handling equipment, construction of an ultra-modern cargo import and export warehouses, manpower trainings and excellent customer services. Hence, SAHCOL continue on the part of growth in confidence with existing and prospective clients Therefore, with this new endorsement of the SAHCOL brand again, ...

EgyptAir flight MS804 Passengers' nationalities 66 people on board - 56 passengers, seven crew members and three security personnel 30  Egyptians 15  French citizens 2  Iraqis 1  from Britain, Canada, Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan, Chad and Portugal Source: EgyptAir PA

Egypt Air Flight 804 Disappears Over Mediterranean ---with 66 souls onboard  E gypt Air flight that went missing on Thursday said they had received little information about what might have happened to the plane.   By REUTERS AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on  Publish Date   Share Tweet CAIRO — An EgyptAir passenger jet that took off from Paris with  66 people on board  suddenly disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday morning, shortly before it was due to land in  Cairo . EgyptAir Flight 804 departed Paris at  11:09 p.m.  on Wednesday. At 2:26 a.m., the pilot spoke to Greek air traffic controllers, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary, officials said. Three or four minutes later, the plane last made radar contact. At 2:37 a.m., shortly after entering Egyptian air space, the plane made a 90-degree turn to the left and then a full circle to the right, plunging to 9,000 feet from  37,000 feet  and d...

  Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has announced the continued expansion of its sectors of the BARS Program with the signing on Monday 15 February 2016 of the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) as a new Tier 1 BARS Member Organization. FSF CEO Jon Beatty, BARS Managing Director David Anderson, and FSFL Chairman John Guselli met with DELWP Secretary Adam Fennessy, Emergency Management Victoria Commissioner Craig Lapsley, and DELWPs Chief Fire Officer Alan Goodwin, and Deputy Chief Fire Officer Darren Mackenzie for the signing of the BARS Member Organization (BMO) Agreement. The signing of this Agreement establishes a collaborative working relationship between Victorian Government and the FSF. The Victorian Government sees great value and advantage in using the BARS Program as a key part of its aviation safety oversight and risk management. DELWP Secretary Adam Fennessy said, "This relationship gives us the opportunity to work with experts in this field to ...

 In line with its determination to provide seamless air navigation services and also enhance safety of air travel within the nation’s airspace, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), has facilitated the signing of letters of procedures between Kano Area Control Centre (ACC) and Abuja Approach Control Unit (APC) on the one hand and between Lagos Area Control Centre (ACC) and Port Harcourt Approach Control Unit (APC) on the other. The letters of procedures which spells out the condition under which the responsibility for provision of air traffic services shall be shared between the parent Area Control Centre and the subordinate Approach Control Units also specifies flow control procedures during periods of congestion, just as it specifies procedures to follow in the event of total or partial communication failure between air traffic control services unit and an aircraft among others. Speaking during the signing of the Letters of Procedures by Air Traffic Operations Managers...