Safety Bureau releases 7 results, increases by 100% statutory
The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), yesterday, released seven new investigation reports with 20 safety recommendations to concerned airlines and regulatory agencies.
The final reports by the NSIB, formerly Accident Investigation Bureau Nigeria (AIB-N), were on old serious incidents that occurred between 2014 and 2020.
The latest reports made a total of 82 aircraft accident reports so far released by the Bureau since its establishment in 2007, and a total of 63 reports released by the current administration from 2017 to date.
Director-General of the Bureau, Akin Olateru, said the reports were essential to the fulfillment of the Bureau’s mandate of investigating aircraft accidents and serious incidents to enhance safety, through safety recommendations issued, thereby assuring safe skies in Nigeria and globally.
Olateru noted that the Bureau earlier released seven reports and 30 safety recommendations in 2022. The Bureau has also released a total of 272 Safety Recommendations since its inception, with 191 of the recommendations released by this administration.
He added that Bureau and its expanded scope had been motivated to do more with the NSIB establishing Act increasing the agencies’ statutory earnings from three to six per cent of the
Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) and five per cent of the Passenger Service Charge (PSC) collected in the industry.
He also disclosed that the Bureau would get a certain percentage of charges from all terminal operators and ticket sales in Nigeria, including the maritime sector.
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“A lot of work went into the drafting of the bill before it was accented into law. According to the Act, the NSIB gets six percent of TSC and 5 percent of PSC from FAAN. There is a percentage of railway tickets; we will find a way to balance it as the proposals are approved in the Act. You all know we do not charge for investigation and so we are a fully funded Bureau,” he said.
Olateru said further that the Bureau plans to recruit more technocrats, adding that out of the 45 investigators on the ground, three-quarters of them have been trained abroad in multi-modal accident investigation.
Among the final reports released are: the serious incident involving Bristow Helicopters Nigeria Limited’s Embraer 135 Aircraft, with nationality and registration, marks 5N-BSN, which occurred at Port Harcourt military Airport (NAF BASE), Port Harcourt, on March 9, 2020.
A serious incident involving ATR-72 Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N- BPG owned and operated by Overland Airways limited occurred at Ilorin International Airport, Nigeria on November 29, 2014.
The serious incident involving Boeing 737-300 Aircraft belonging to Air Peace Limited with nationality and registration Marks 5N-BUO which occurred at FL310 en route Enugu from Lagos on December 14, 2018.
The serious incident involving British Aerospace BAE 125-800B Aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BOO operated by Gyro Aviation limited, which occurred at Port Harcourt, Nigeria on July 16, 2020.
The serious incident involving British Aerospace BAE 125-800B aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-BOO operated by Gyro Aviation limited, which occurred at Osubi airstrip, Warri, Nigeria on September 10, 2020.
The serious incident involving a Dornier 328-100 aircraft with nationality and registration marks 5N-DOX, operated by Dornier Aviation Nigeria AIEP (DANA) Limited, occurred at Port Harcourt military Airport on January 23, 2019.
Lastly, the serious incident involving Airbus 330-243 aircraft operated by Middle East Airlines with nationality and registration marks OD-MEA and a parked Boeing 777 aircraft operated by Turkish Airlines with nationality and registration marks TC-LJC, which occurred at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on July 29, 2020.
