NSIB releases final report on 7 plane crashes
Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has publicly released the final reports on seven accident crashes recorded in the aviation sector to the country, with some dating back to 2014.
Briefing newsmen in Abuja, Thursday, while making the reports pubic, NSIB Director-General, Mr Akin Olateru, said the reports were essential to the fulfilment of the bureau’s mandate of investigating aircraft accidents and serious incidents.
According to him, the aim of releasing the reports is to enhance safety, through safety recommendations issued, thereby assuring safe skies in Nigeria and globally.
According to Olateru, newly released reports make a total of 82 aircraft accident reports released by NSIB since its establishment in 2007 and a total of 63 reports released by current administration from 2017 till date.
He said seven reports and 30 safety recommendations had been released so far in 2022 alone.
“This year alone, seven reports and thirty safety recommendations have been released so far.
“The Bureau has also released a total of Two hundred and seventy-two Safety recommendations since inception with One hundred and ninety-one of the recommendations released by this administration”, he explained.
“As the Commission’s mandate scope has been expanded now into other sectors, we are going to deployed more Man power, modern equipment and facilities for smooth conduct of our responsibilities in order to serve the country better and to meet the international standards.”
“The reports to be released today include; serious incident involving Bristow Helicopters Nigeria LTD, Embraer 135 Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BSN, which occurred at Port Harcourt Military Airport (NAF BASE), Port Harcourt, on March 9, 2020.
“The serious incident involving ATR-72 Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N- BPG owned and operated by Overland Airways limited, which occurred at Ilorin International Airport, Nigeria, on November 29, 2014.
“The serious incident involving Boeing 737-300 Aircraft belonging to Air Peace Limited with nationality and registration Marks 5N-BUO , which occurred at FL310 enroute Enugu from Lagos on Dec. 14, 2018,“ he said.
He added that the serious incident involving British Aerospace BAE 125-800B Aircraft , with nationality and registration marks 5N-BOO operated by Gyro Aviation limited, which occurred at Port Harcourt, Nigeria on July 16, 2020.
“The serious incident involving British Aerospace BAE 125-800B aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BOO operated by Gyro Aviation limited, which occurred at Osubi airstrip, Warri, Nigeria on September 10, 2020.
“The serious incident involving a Dornier 328-100 aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-DOX, operated by Dornier Aviation Nigeria AIEP (DANA) Limited, which occurred at Port Harcourt military Airport on January 23, 2019.
“The serious incident involving Airbus 330-243 aircraft operated by Middle East Airlines with nationality and registration mark; OD-MEA,“ he said.
Others, he said, included a parked Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Turkish Airlines with nationality and registration marks TC-LJC , which occurred at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos on July, 29, 2020.
Olateru stated that the details of the reports, which include the factual information, findings, analysis, conclusions and safety recommendations on the investigations were available for download on the organisation’s website.
The NSIB was formerly known as the Accident Investigations Bureau of Nigeria (AIB-N).
