A plane has clipped wings with another plane while taxiing at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration says the right wing of EgyptAir Flight 986, a Boeing 777 headed to Cairo, touched the left wing of London-bound Virgin Atlantic Flight 4C. It happened just after 7 p.m. Monday. There were […]
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U.S Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, has given Nigerian airlines a 65-day ultimatum to resolve specified security issues or risk being barred from flying to its country. A team of US FAA officials who recently carried out an audit for the renewal of Nigeria’s category one safety status gave the ultimatum on August 24. The US […]
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The Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Capt. Muhtar Usman, says the agency remains optimistic that Nigeria will retain its Category 1 safety rating. Usman stated this on Friday at the conclusion of the United States Federal Aviation Authority’s five-day audit of the NCAA. Nigeria achieved a Category 1 air safety rating from the […]
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The United States Federal Aviation Administration (US FAA) is to commence the certification of the Nigerian aviation industry on August 21, 2017, says the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Speaking during a briefing at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, the spokesman for NCAA, Mr. Sam Adurogboye, stated that a four-man US FAA team is due […]
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