The Senate on Tuesday rejected the
explanation of the Minister of
Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, on the ill- fated crash involving a 23-year-oldbPropeller aeroplane on the fleet of the Associated Airlines on October 3.
Ms. Oduah was also urged to re-submit a detailed presentation on the incident.
The minister appeared before the Senatebin company with heads of the variousbagencies under her ministry. She limited
her presentation to the information
retrieved from the black box of the
aircraft.
Stella Oduah explained that the Accident and Investigations Bureau began investigation and diagnosed the black box in the airport's laboratory and demonstrated a 2-minute video of the conversations between the two pilots, adding that both engines of the aircrafts
were faulty and should not have been allow to fly.
She pointed out that the speed of the plane was not enough for the engine to take off and that the co-pilot warned that the bird should not take off but that his colleague, who was in charge of the
flight, ignored the advice.
She said, "As the minister of aviation, the fact that we got preliminary report in our
laboratory without waiting for the final report, showed that we have put in placebpreventive measures."
The minister proceeded with a power point presentation, containing graphic and pictoral details of the state of the
various airports in Nigeria and how her administration had been able to carry out a comprehensive transformation of the
sector.
Having listened to the presentation, the Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Abdul Ningi, who represented Senate President David Mark, said Oduah's explanation fell
short of addressing the circumstancesbthat surrounded the crash.
For instance, Ningi said the minister should come up, at another date, with
details about the processes that led to the take-off of the aircraft on the fateful day, especially those whose responsibility it was, to have alerted relevant agencies on its condition.
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