FG SUSPENDS DANA AIRILINE'S LICENSE AGAIN!

Three days after a tragic crash involving an Associated Airlines plane killed 14 people in Lagos, the Federal Government, through the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority have suspended Dana Air's operations, yet again. The suspension was announced last night by the Coordinating General Manager, Corporate Communications, Aviation Parastatals, Mr. Yakubu Dati, who said the decision was to allow the regulatory agency “conduct an operational audit” on the carrier and its planes.

The decision to suspend Dana’s operations came 24 hours after the NCAA grounded the operations of Associated Airlines, whose Embraer 120 plane crashed near a fuel depot two minutes after takeoff at the Lagos airport, leaving only six survivors. The latest suspension of Dana’s operations makes it the third time the NCAA would be grounding the carrier over safety and other related issues since the Dana flight 992 crash that killed over 150 passengers on 3rd June 2012.