At last, embattled domestic operator, Dana Air, will commence its
scheduled domestic operations today with a Lagos-Abuja service.
The airline went off the skies on June 3, 2012, when the aviation
mmmministry via the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) suspended
its Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) following the crash of one of its
MD 83 jets in Iju Ishaga area of Lagos that killed 163 people and
destroyed property worth billions of naira.
Since then, the airline had battled for its return into operation and
on December 5, 2012, the NCAA issued new AOC to the airline after it
satisfactorily scaled the safety audit.
But the regulatory agency, NCAA, told the airline management in clear
terms that it would not be allowed to fly until it begins to pay the
outstanding 70 per cent of the $100,000 to families of victims of the
crash as stipulated by law.
Having also showed sufficient evidence of this, the NCAA gave the airline the all clear nod to commence scheduled operations.
Reacting to the resumption of flights, the spokesman of Dana Group,
Tony Usidamen, extolled the NCAA for its support, adding that the
airline would begin with a Lagos-Abuja-Lagos flight today, after which
it would gradually introduce other routes it hitherto flew to.
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