MINISTER OF STATE FOR AVIATION RESTATES COMMITMENT TO STRENGTHENING AIR OPERATION

As part of efforts to check air mishaps in the country, the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, says the aviation sector had heightened oversight on Dana and other airlines to ensure proficiency and competence in air operations.

This is coming on the heels of a Dana airplane 5N-SRl which landed off Port Harcourt International Airport runway on Tuesday.

Sirika said the Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, the statutory body for investigations according to the provisions of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, had swung into action and would soon come up with findings that would further strengthen the aviation sector.

He explained that Nigeria had scored above average in the global air safety rating having scored sixty-seven per cent as against sixty per cent global average.

He assured Nigerians of the commitment of the present administration to build more on achievement in the sector