Tag: aircraft
Military aircraft crash: Names of five people on board identified
The names of five of the seven people on board the ill-fated Beechcraft King Air B350i Nigeria Air Force plane…
NAF to deploy aircraft, military equipment in Abuja for anniversary
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) will deploy aircraft, military equipment and personnel in Abuja during rehearsals for its 55th Anniversary…
Elections: Air Force deploys aircraft to flash points
Nigeria’s Air Force has deployed NAF aircraft, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms to various flash points in support of…
First aircraft lands at Bayelsa airport
Thousands of enthusiastic Bayelsans, celebrated the landing of Governor Seriake Dickson and other guests, in the first airplane at the…
Court restrains Diamond Bank from taking over aircraft
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos south west Nigeria has restrained Diamond bank Plc and its appointed…
Overland aircraft catches fire at Lagos Airport
A turboprop aircraft belonging to Overland Airways was on Friday severely damaged by fire while parked at the airline’s hanger…
Student pilot force-lands diamond 40 trainer aircraft
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says its student pilot has forced-landed a Diamond 40 Trainer Aircraft on the outskirts of…
Lagos sets to acquire surveillance Aircraft to secure Creeks
The Lagos State Government has perfected plans to acquire Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform, which is a specialized light…
Nigeria Airforce showcases new attack aircraft
Nigeria’s air force has shown off new assets it says will be used to combat the Boko Haram insurgency in…
2 aircraft collide at Lagos Airport
A ground collision of two aircraft belonging to Air Peace has been reported at the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos…
Air Peace receives 12th aircraft, opens Lekki office
One of Nigeria’s domestic airlines, Air Peace, has taken delivery of its 12th aircraft, a 114-capacity Boeing 737-500. Its Chief…
5 Die in Australian plane crash
A light aircraft exploded Tuesday in a “massive fireball” with police saying none of the five people aboard survived as…
Qatar Airways aircraft incident caused by bird strike
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said the air return made by a Qatar Airways aircraft on Feb. 9 at…
NAF deploys more aircraft to Niger Delta to check militants
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Sadiq Abubakar, said the force had intensified deployment to the Niger Delta to…
Bauchi puts controversial aircraft on lease
Bauchi State Government on Friday announced that it had leased its aircraft to Overland Airlines. The state Deputy Governor, Alhaji…
Search for debris of crashed Malaysian plane to end on Aug. 17
Dominique Sorain, the administrator of French Island La Reunion, said on Friday that the search for more debris of the…
Aregbesola promises to develop aircraft maintenance airport
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has said that the proposed airport at Ido-Osun in Egbedore Local Government Area of the…
FG investigating Synagogue mystery aircraft – Obanikoro
Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, Minister of state for Defence, on Friday said investigations were ongoing to unravel the mystery of the…
Nigeria Unveils Aircraft To Fight Oil Thieves
Nigeria’s military on Tuesday took the wraps off a new aircraft to tackle oil thieves high-seas pirates off the country’s…
NIMASA, Air Force showcases aircraft to monitor crime-infested waters
Nigeria’s military on Tuesday took the wraps off a new aircraft to tackle high-seas pirates off the country’s coast, as…
Oshiomhole’s flight grounded on ‘order from above’
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state was Thursday stopped from travelling to Ado Ekiti Thursday following the grounding…
Aero Contractors plane loses pressure mid-air, lands safely
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent An Aero Contractors plane, whose tyre lost pressure mid-air, landed safely at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport…
127 Escape Death, Plane’s Wheel On Fire
At least 127 passengers on board an aircraft narrowly escaped death in South Africa on Tuesday. The chartered aircraft had…
Dana Must Resume Flight Operations — ART
A group of aviation analysts and professionals under the aegis of Aviation Round Table, ART, have said that Dana Air,…
Commotion As Arik Diverts Passengers To P/Harcourt
Frightened passengers scurried to exit doors and sent frantic text messages to loved ones on Sunday night as Arik flight…
Dana Air Crash Was Consequence Of FG Failure —Lagos Lawmaker
A lawmaker representing Eti-Osa Constituency 2 at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Gbolahan Yishawu, has explained that the recent…
A Nation In Distress
By Peter Claver Oparah The smouldering smoke from the ill-fated Dana Airline crash in Iju Ishaga, a suburb of Lagos,…
I Was To Board Crashed Dana Aircraft —Ikuforiji
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji has a lot to thank God for as he was…
Dana Crash: Group Sympathises With Nigeria
The Three Wheelers Beneficiaries and Operations Association of Nigeria, TWBOAN, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, has described Sunday’s plane crash at…
Passenger Steals On Arik Flight
A business class, on any airline, is reserved for wealthy and decent people, but a passenger on Arik Air flight…