While the dust raised by the Federal Government’s removal of the
director general of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Dr
Harold Demuren is yet to settle, news filtered into the industry on
Saturday night that government had also revoked the Air Operators
Certificate of Dana Air.
With the withdrawal of the airlines’
certificate, it has become impossible for the embattled carrier to
continue flight operations.
The latest development may not be
unconnected with the recommendations of the National Assembly after
their investigations on the June 3rd, 2012 crash of an MD 83 aircraft
belonging to Dana Air at Iju/Ishaga area of Lagos State which claimed
over 163 lives on board the plane and on ground.
Both the House of
Representatives and Senate had earlier in the year passed a resolution
asking the Federal Government to revoke the operating licence of Dana
Air and to remove the Director-General of the Nigerian
Civil Aviation
Authority, among other things, based on the report of the committee on
the investigation carried out on the 2012 Dana crash.
while all those
called on phone to confirm the story declined, a top official in the
Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) who spoke on a condition of
anonymity confirmed the withdrawal of Dana’s Air Operator Certificate
(AOC).
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