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Aftermath Of Germanwings Crash: Nigerian Pilots Are Mentally Fit by oluamid(m): 8:15pm On Apr 08, 2015 |
Following the recent crash involving a Germanwings aircraft in France and the subsequent revelations made as to the cause of the accident,aviation stakeholders have beamed the spotlight on the mental health of pilots operating in Nigeria. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has, however, dispelled such fears, saying that pilots operating in Nigeria have not experienced issues concerning their mental fitness in carrying out their job. The Deputy General Manager, Corporate Affairs of NCAA, Mr. Samuel Adurogboye, who revealed this, said that the common cases the regulatory authority handle concerning pilots’ state of health were eye sight issues, obesity and heart issues. Adurogboye added that the authority always carried out six-month interval medical test on all the pilots, including foreign pilots operating in the country. “I am not aware of any mental unfitness issue, but I know of issues of eye sight, obesity and heart, these are common among pilots here. The healthiest people on earth are the pilots because they were tested the actual medical test at a six-month interval,’’ he said. According to him, pilots who violated the rules and regulations of the authority were always sanctioned. Adurogboye noted that pilots who came into Nigeria to fly, no matter the country where they had their training, usually undergo the NCAA examination before they were given the NCAA licence to operate in Nigeria. His words: “We will give you certain things to read like the syllabus and timetable to go and study, then after the agreed time, normally three months, you come and do exam. If you pass, we give you our own licence. The licence from here does not qualify you to fly in the USA or South Africa, likewise those from other countries do not qualify you to fly here. “You will then have to go to the Nigeria College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) to be trained on language and other things because you will have to be communicating with our Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs),’’ he said. He further stated that the airline operator who employed the pilot or crew was not allowed to get involved during the medical examination of their pilots. He said that NCAA encourages the airlines to do their own medical assessments of their pilots and submit their report to the regulatory authority for comparism. “We have a department on medical but the department does not handle mental fitness for pilots. If we start asking them to handle it, it will affect their operations and proficiency. Which means we will start going to manufacture tissue or files they want to use? We give that job to external source that has the laboratory, the expertise and has the experience to do it,’’ he said. He explained that what applied to a Nigerian pilot also applies to a foreign pilot who chooses to fly in the country. www.aviationplatformnews.com/ncaa-nigerian-pilots-are-mentally-fit/ |
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