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JUST IN: NCAA lifts ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft in Nigeria airspace
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By Lawani Mikairu
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Sunday said the ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft operating in the Nigerian Airspace has been lifted. The ban was placed following two fatal accident involving the aircraft.
A statement signed by the Director General, NCAA, Captain Musa Nuhu said the lifting of the ban came into effect on 12th February, 2021.
Captain Nuhu in the statement said : “Consequent upon the two accidents of Lion Air Flight 610, an Indonesia flight which crashed into the Java Sea 13mins after takeoff, and Ethiopian Airlines flight 320, which crashed six minutes after takeoff, made the Honourable Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika pronounced the ban on the operations of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the Nigerian airspace.”