The management of Air Peace has declared that three members of its flight crew did not abscond from the quarantine facility provided by the Lagos state government as reported by a Newspaper (Not Nigerian Tribune).

A newspaper had earlier reported that three crew members of the Air Peace flight that airlifted medical supplies and Chinese medical personnel, operated by Boeing B777-200 ER (P4 5-NBVE), which arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on April 8, 2020, absconded from the quarantine facility in Lagos.

According to the Chief Operating Officer of Air Peace, Mrs Toyin Olajide, all the crew that operated the flight, which includes six pilots, eight cabin crew, two engineers and one dispatch officer are still quarantined under the supervision of the Lagos state government.

Olajide explained that at the onset of the flight to China, the crew was tested for COVID-19 and each member tested negative and the airline followed the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) protocol to ensure that its crew members were protected from exposure to the virus.

She said that on arrival at Beijing airport, none of the crew members came out of the aircraft while the aircraft was loaded with medical supplies and the Chinese medical team boarded the aircraft from the central door and stayed in the business class cabin and the flight left for Nigeria.

She also explained that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) approved standard protocol to protect flight crew during the COVID-19 pandemic and NCAA adopted it, adding that it is this protocol that Air Peace followed in conducting the flight to Beijing.

Olajide said that the crew members did not know that they would be quarantined on arrival and when the aircraft landed in Abuja and concerned authorities suggested it, Air Peace argued against it because it followed NCAA protocol in conducting the flight, so the discussion on it was inconclusive when the flight headed to Lagos.

“But the airline learnt later that while the flight was airborne to Lagos, Abuja had directed the Lagos state government to quarantine the crew; so on arrival, while the engineers and the dispatcher went down to the foot of the aircraft to secure it, the Lagos state government health team took the pilots and the cabin crew to quarantine.

“Ignorant that they would be quarantined, the engineers and the dispatcher finished their work and went home, but later the Lagos state government contacted Air Peace and said that the engineers and the dispatcher ought to be quarantined and we called them and they went to the quarantine facility and they have been there since then.

“So the report that indicated that members of our crew ran away from quarantine is not true. It is a report written in bad taste and it is not good because the crew did a heroic thing and needed to be commended instead of being vilified,” Olajide said.

NCAA, in a circular issued to airlines and other stakeholders with ref: NCAA/DG/AIR/11/110 dated March 28, 2020, outlined the protocol in handling cargo and other essential flights during the COVID-19 and among the directives include the fact that “Nigerian operators on any approved flight to any destination with over 1000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 shall ensure the provision of reinforced flight crew (two sets) for immediate return in accordance with relevant protocols.

NCAA also directed that “there shall be no servicing of aircraft (catering, water, trash etc) except refuelling; and this must be accomplished with the flight crew on board.”

Mrs Olajide said the airline kept to this protocol and instead of a two-flight crew; it went with three sets of flight crew and strictly kept to the NCAA protocol until it landed in Abuja.

“While we kept to the directive of quarantining the crew members that conducted the flight, we are surprised that after we followed this protocol the crew members were still asked to quarantine. ICAO’s intention with the protocol is to ensure that the flight crew is not quarantined after their operation. Every day flights are operated all over the world moving medicals and other critical items. If you quarantine the pilots who will be flying these items that are needed to safe human lived under this COVID-19 pandemic?” Olajide asked.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/no-member-of-our-crew-absconded-from-quarantine-facility-―-air-peace/

Air peace is a very responsible company and so I believe them.

This people can lie Sha o.

We already saw "now they are back"

In every untruth, there is an atom of truth.

I believe Airpeace

Six pilots in a plane for a 14-hour return flight?

The pilots in Airpeace crew can't abscond because they are respectful smart individuals.

Counter attack

What's the name of the league naa.....

Though the match is between Naija FG United Vrs FC Airpeace


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corona !!!

Who is lying now. Confuse people

Prevention is far better than cure...
Staysafe###

Say the truth and let the truth set you free

were are all this fake news emanating from?

They should just modify this Coronavirus to attack only those who use flowery words to confuse us.
You want us to believe that they came in to pick the pilot and others and left the engineers?
The engineers passed through a back gate to their homes and nobody saw them?
There is something seriously missing.

So punch publishes fake news too. Modified.

I stand with punch. Seems they didn't know they would be quarantined and they went home

The guys probably went to smoke Indian hemp and didn't want to disturb others with the thick smoke...

But we all know that they brought the Chinese guys because of Abba Kyari since he was not responding to Naija doctors treatment... That's why "they" were deaf to the cries of Nigerians not to bring in the Chinese

Mean while...

Amazing journalism

Umu afo igbo kwugi na azu

Jide ka jii o nna
Onye asiri ya jide ka oji
Omaru na ife ona eme kwuoto ka sigar

We have heard, we are all in this together if things get worse, the crew can't be sleeping in the plane for weeks. Last last, we coro together.

Instead of our lazy journalist to be more concerned about the billions of naira being donated and how it's been spent, they're more active in creating fake news every day

Wetin dem wan talk b4

I enjoyed listening to lies especially when I know the truth.
Mother hide the pregnancy of her daughter from her father after four months the truth revealed.

Make una pursue am oohhhh

Whois:
So punch publishes fake news too

No be 2day oooo, Punch & fake news are 5 & 6.

Well said.

They didn't know they would be quarantined and they went home. I find this hard to believe cos they didn't fly the gate out of the area, they got out. How come others didn't see them to tell them they were to be quarantined?

They didn't log their entry into the Lagos office operating area? Anyway sha, they are safe, sound and in quarantine.

The FG thanks them, not Nigerians. Nigerians didn't send anybody to import Chinese doctors. It is between them and the FG.

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