Naked Display of Ignorance on the Nigerian Aviation Industry
In my last post I talked about the issue of age in relation to safety and the trend by the government to ban aircraft types involved in plane crashes from the country's aviation industry. Recently the House of Representatives in a session passed a resolution calling for the sack of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Harold Demuren for professional negligence. They recommended the revocation of his professional license as well as criminal prosecution for criminal negligence. They called for the revocation of Dana Air's operating license as well as phasing the MD83 out of the Nigerian aviation industry due to the fact that the NCAA does not have a certified engineer type rated on the MD83. I was dazed when the National Assembly misled Nigerians to belief that the Nigerian aviation sector is weak, that NCAA allows unfit aircraft to fly as well as negligence caused the Dana plane to crash. The report on the Dana crash by the National Assembly is a distortion of fact m...