Nigeria: Financial Regulation as Panacea to Air Accidents

18 October 2013

Many industry experts posit that since the promulgation of the 2006 Civil Aviation Act, Nigeria has improved on safety regulation, but the gains are being hampered by airlines which operate in the red. Chinedu Eze writes that government should keep a tab on airlines that lack the financial capacity to carry out efficient operations

Few years ago an aircraft engineer working with a charter airline ran to the VIP Lounge at the Lagos airport where journalists were staying then and almost out of breath narrated how the owner of the airline he was working for threw a bottle at him for directing that an aircraft should not be operated because it was not air worthy.

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