Associated Airline's plane crash and conflicting reports
Conflicting reports about the ill-fated Aircraft according to Punch . Read the reports in Punch Newspaper , Associated Airline crash and a harvest of conflicting reports OCTOBER 12, 2013 BY BOSEDE OLUSOLA-OBASA Over one week after the air mishap involving an Associated Airline plane on October 3, 2013, Nigerians have been treated to a bouquet of conflicting reports on the cause. The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority had in the wake of the accident, insinuated that the cause of the crash couldn’t have been related to a technical fault. The regulatory agency, possibly in an attempt to absolve itself of any blame, declared that the plane was fit to fly as at the day the crash happened. It claimed that Associated Aviation Limited held a subsisting Air Operators Certificate and currently conducts only charter operations. NCAA’s Director, Consumer Protection, Adamu Abdullahi, had last Friday ascertained that the airline possessed an air operators’ certificate, ...