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Nigerians have forgotten that several unfortunate breakdowns somewhere between 2005 and 2006, when the shocking news of the absence of the aircraft was received around the afternoon of March 15, 2008.
For many, it was a sad event, such as the aviation industry has celebrated 2007 as an accident / incident free years. The aircraft, a Beechcraft 1900D with the registration number 5N JAH, flew from Lagos to the pier Bebi in Cross River State, on March 15.
The aircraft is part of Wings Aviation lost contact with the airport in Port Harcourt to Enugu cross. The Beechcraft 1900D Airliner is a 9 people, the pressure Twin-engine turboprop aircraft, produced by the Beechcraft from the division of Raytheon Company (now Hawker Beechcraft).
It has been developed and is at the forefront of regional aircraft. It is also used for commercial purposes as a transit corporation machinery and transport. The Airliner is designed for passenger transport in all weather airport runway for relatively short distances of less than 600 miles.
With regard to the number of aircraft built, and its continued use of a lot of airlines and other users, it is the most successful 9 passenger transport aircraft in history. Only a few days after the aircraft was declared missing, most of the officials of the airline industry were skeptical about the ability to find the plane, as she did, that Obudu as a place that does not have a good visibility.
Felix Hyat, in an interview, one day after the incident, were told that the topography of the environment was responsible for the failure, for aircraft.
Pending parties have expressed concerns over the situation, as she asked me how long it will last until the small planes found.
Some even questioned whether the search and rescue of the team, under the leadership of the Nigerian Constitution Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have the equipment needed for research.
Aviation Consultant, Ore. parties, said it was very betrübend that Nigeria could still this situation, as happened during the Bellview Crash of 2005.
Ore re-emphasized that the search and rescue “is only on paper, we do not have a reliable system. As I have already said, this is a memory that things are not working. Our research and rescue is not the system. The first story was the fact that the wreckage and the three crew members were dead, but to our surprise, the same people who claim they have found the wreckage and the bodies of the crew members to make you say, they are still To find. This has a lot of questions about the credibility of the profession. ”
On the basis of NEMA, in the search and rescue services, Ore., that the agency lacks the capacity processing Aeronautical rescue and adds that “NEMA was created for the ceiling and distribute food while natural disasters such as floods, and fire. ”
Saturday Akerele, secretary general of the Round Table of aviation, it is necessary to include in the 2008 budget appropriations search and rescue.
“We hope that our search and rescue of the organization, structure, funding and staffing receive the necessary attention in the 2008 budget to help tell us more strategic behaviour of the national investigation and rescue exercises on all international airports. ”
The twin-turboprop aircraft of the registration number 5N JAH departed Lagos airport exactly 7.35 pm on Saturday for the Bebi Airstrip, Obudu, for a service charter.
There were three people on board and was scheduled for 8.45 Bebi exactly, but if nothing is done, was established by the crew of about 10.00, NEMA was contacted.
Business Day gathered as soon as the aircraft was declared missing, search and rescue teams from the aerospace industry, began a quick search of the aircraft.
The spokesman for Wings Aviation, Omokore Jude, “said witness the Air Operators Certificate (AOC), was intact and finds that it was recently presented by the NCAA.
“We are always looking for the aircraft. Our people are in Calabar and the search would continue throughout the night. It is very unfortunate. ”
The aircraft is still missing, however, is worrisome, given that all the efforts of the competent authorities have abortive.
The incident recalls the film in which an airplane with an official Fedex collapsed, and the man only had to live for more than four years by the lake.
Unfortunately, his wife, in faith, he was dead, but another married person was surprised when her husband was found, after four years.
Is this the fate of the crew on board aircraft or not? Only time will tell that nobody can say where the special plane.
Given that research and relief efforts, experts and non-experts have all the necessary equipment for search and rescue missions in the country, who claim not to have sufficient personnel and equipment to be used.
Speaker, House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole in conversation with journalists recently aeronautics, said he was disappointed that the aircraft or its wreackage yet been reported missing.
“I think we are all disappointed with the efforts so far, we hope, by the grace of God that we support a solution at the end of the matter, but also because of the sensitivity of the subject, I wish hear the first Department of Aviation before I am at the point. ”
In the meantime, to ensure that this kind of thing will not recur, invited the federal government, the establishment of a search and rescue “unity in the aviation industry in addition to the benefits of NEMA.
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