“Cutting corners…”, contd.: Nigerian aviation officials often collude with influential airline owners by looking the other way – SR Nigerian aviation officials often collude with influential airline owners by looking the other way in lieu of bribes frequently taken from aircraft owners. For instance, it took the effort of a whistleblower within the defunct Air Nigeria for the aviation authorities to revoke the airworthiness licence of Air Nigeria in the wake of the fatal Dana Air crash in 2012. The licence was however swiftly restored shortly under mysterious circumstances, to the consternation and outrage of families who were left bereaved or impoverished by the crash. A staff member ostensibly fighting against the airline management released a damning consumer review on the website, Ripoff as follows: Associated has advertised its aircraft for sale. These airplanes can only be described as dangerous and requires that a buyer beware notice be posted. Anyone looking at these aircrafts must underline the need to examine the aircraft logbooks with a magnifying glass. The records that exist are fraudulent at the least.Staff, now employed by a better airline, I will be first to tell you that our supervisors insisted on the use of none manufacturer or OEM parts obtained from local electronic stores. Very little records were kept, the entire LLP records are a fabrication; all these were possible because the local Civil Aviation Authority looked the other way. , For more of the sordid details of what passes for supervision/oversight on the airline industry by Nigerian government agencies, read the following story, 2009 Associated Airlines ReportDetails Fraud In Maintenance Of Aircraft Which Crashed This Month Sahara Reporters saharareporters/news-page/2009-associated-airlines-report-details-fraud-maintenance-aircraft-which-crashed-month RELATED STORY: emotanafricana/2013/10/06/a-blast-from-a-not-distant-past-airlines-cannot-make-profit-without-cutting-corners-retd-col-marwa-by-tola-adenle/
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