TUE, JUNE 11 2019-theG&BJournal- Air Peace has rejected claims made in the report released by the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) suggesting that the airline had consistently failed to file Mandatory Occurrence Report (MOR) on incidents involving its aircraft.
AIB said in the report that the airline failed to report an incident which occurred on May 15 to the Bureau but only reported the incident after the Bureau’s team visited its corporate headquarters in Lagos on June 6, which was about three weeks after the incident.
The Chief Operating Officer of Air Peace, Mrs Oluwatoyin Olajide, in a statement today in Lagos, dismissed the AIB’s allegation as gross misrepresentation of facts.
The incident in question involved an Air Peace Boeing 737-300 5N – BUK which made a hard landing in Lagos on account of sudden change in weather at the point of touch down.
Olajide said contrary to the bureau’s claim, Air Peace had duly notified the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), of the incident on May 16.
‘’The airline also followed up with a written communication and subsequently filed an MOR on May 17 with reference number APL/QM/279/19 to the regulatory agency,’’ Olajide noted.
She said the MOR was received and signed for by the NCAA on the same date and that the airline complied with the statutory timeline for the filing of MOR.
“The airline is shocked by the deliberate misrepresentation of facts by the AIB especially as it is capable of scaring the flying public from patronising the airline,’’ Olajide said.
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