NCAA Fines, Suspends Airlines For 180 Days Over Violations Of NCARS

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, weekend said it has
sanctioned four airline operators for various degrees of violations of
Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations, NCARs.

The airlines, which
were not named by the regulator, include both scheduled and
non-scheduled operators. Kano Confirming the sanctions, the General
Manager, Public Affairs, NCAA, Mr. Sam Adurogboye said during “on the
spot inspection carried out by NCAA Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASI) on
those operators, a number of deficiencies, including non implementation
of training programmes of maintenance personnel as required,
irregularities concerning helicopter flight identification, deliberate
violation of the regulations, performing maintenance programme without
necessary approval and using outdated manual were discovered.”

According
to Adurogboye, all these findings were found to be in violation of the
Regulations. “Consequently, the various operators were fined ranging
from one million and five hundred thousand naira only to Two million
naira only, while the operator involved in deliberate violation of the
Regulations had its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) suspended for 180
days.”