Lagos Bound Arik Flight Aborted As Arik Air Plane Develops 'Technical Issue' CHANNELS
A Lagos bound Arik Air flight was aborted on Wednesday night in Abuja when the aircraft allegedly developed technical issues and refused to start. The flight ...
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Lagos Bound Arik Flight Aborted As Plane Develops ‘Technical Issue’
Posted by: Channels Television Posted date: October 24, 2013 In: Local | comment : 2

A Lagos bound Arik Air flight was aborted on Wednesday night in Abuja when the aircraft allegedly developed technical issues and refused to start.
The flight, which was to transport passenger from the local wing of the Abuja airport to the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, was scheduled for 7pm but was delayed till about 8pm.
According to one of the intending travelers, Dominic, who spoke to Channels Television, “the passengers had checked in and were about boarding the aircraft when some people noticed the pilot was having issues in his seat.
“After a few minutes, a member of the Arik team announced to us in front of the airplane that there was a technical issue” and so they would have to wait for another aircraft from Lagos, to ferry them to their destination.

“So we had to wait another 1 hour and a few minutes for the arrival of another plane.”
Following the series of air mishaps and accidents which have occurred in the Nigerian airspace, including the Akure bound Associated Airline plane which crashed on October 3rd but not before giving the pilot warning signals.
The passengers finally arrived in Lagos at about 12 midnight on another aircraft.

Note: KABO,CHANCHANGI,IRS AND DANA AIR WERE GROUNDED FOR SIMILAR REASONS TOO....which brings me to these many questions: is this audit thing a witch-hunting exercise? is this audit thing a ploy to kill some airlines for the national carrier? is the NCAA afraid of a particular airline called Arik? was the technical issue not enough for them to be grounded? They have been experiencing air returns which is a safety precautionary measure, but when Dana Air and IRS had theirs, it became a big issue! These airlines including kabo and chanchangi are presently grounded, why is ARIK not grounded? NCAA please save us na? or is it the car scandal that is taking NCAA’S minds off their duties? Or is it that they are busy looking for ways to cover the minster’s mess while Arik is busy toying with our lives? Are they not aware that tickets have gone up as high as 39k? is the audit of Dana Air,KABO,CHANCHANGI and IRS going to take eternity? Is it that some airlines have permission to experience technical issues and toy with people’s lives? is this audit thing not supposed to be a general thing? Too many unanswered questions!

The other day the NAFDAC DG complained about this airline when he was travelling with some ministers. The same airline delayed ma elder bro in London for 6 hours over technical issues! This airline is reputed for long delays without apology.

My brothers no airline is safe, na God hand our safety dey oooo! If you think NCAA is working, then you better have a rethink, because this agency is only good at buying bullet-proof cars for madam at the top and giving some airlines liberty to toy with precious lives!

Nonsense!