Sunday 3 June 2012

AIR TRAGEDY BACK TO NIGERIA.


On Saturday the 2nd of August a nigerian aircraft a Boeing 727 cargo aircraft, belonging to Allied Air, a nigerian based company, crashed landed in Accra over shooting the runway, going through a wall, and killing ten passengers inside a commercial taxi van. This happened according to local reports, at about 7pm. On Sunday the 3rd at about 4pm, a commercial airliner a Mcdonalds Douglas MD 83 aircraft, belonging to a Nigerian based airline Dana Airlines, four minutes to landing, with reported 153 passengers, and four crew members on board, lost control and crashed on top of three buildings, in a populated zone of Lagos, Nigeria.

Once again questions will be raised, once again, special investigations will be ordered, blaming a deffect on the aircraft, or the pilot.

Strikes to me, as an aviation enthusiast, and not an expert in any way, that somehow these two aircraft that crashed, in less than 24 hours apart,  are very old aircraft, that demand constant, and top quality maintenance to keep them flying safely at FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) minimum standards. In a country where money can hide the truth, Nigeria, maybe the real reasons will never come out. And here go hundreds of lives, in a matter of minutes, because of the madness, behind some operators flying all over Africa. 

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