Tag: NSIB

‘Pilot Disorientation, Others,’ Why Wigwe’s Helicopter Crashed – US Releases Report

Ganiyu Amodu

The Director-General of the Nigeria Safety and Investigation Bureau, Alex Badeh, has said that the United States National Transportation Safety Board shared the report of the helicopter crash that claimed the life of the former Group Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, Herbert Wigwe, alongside his wife, son, and three others, with the NSIB. NSIB is an agency of the Federal Government. Badeh made this known in an exclusive chat with PUNCH barely a week after the report of the NTSB that provided details of findings on why the…

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Why, How Helicopter Flying Six NNPC Staff Crashed, Killed Everyone Onboard – Blackbox, NSIB

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau has explained why a Sikorsky SK76 helicopter operated by East Aviation crashed in Port Harcourt. NSIB said the operators of the helicopter violated several of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Regulations directives. Despite the NSIB’s silence on whether or not the vices led to the crash of the helicopter, the act shows gaps in the regulatory duties of the NCAR. The helicopter, which was contracted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Bonny Finima, off the coast of Calabar on October…

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