November 20th, 2006 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Aviation, Nigeria
Michael Dickson, the man in the picture, holds some explosives he had tried to smuggle aboard a jetliner in Nigeria. Somehow, his plot was foiled…by sheer luck!
While the reports carried by various Nigerian mainstream media suggest that the explosives were meant to be detonated once the airliner was airborne; there is very little in the reports to support this assertion. Were […]
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October 31st, 2006 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Aviation, Nigeria
“It was the pilot’s fault“, says Nigerian Aviation Minister less than 48 hours after the recent airliner crash in Nigeria. Just days earlier, the nation marked the one year remembrance of the victims of a jetliner crash, the first in the series of four air crash fatalities in the past 12 months.
Whatever convincing evidence the […]
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December 14th, 2005 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Aviation, Entries on Old Grandiose Palor (Blogger)
Why should reforms be limited to the Nigerian aviation industry and not all sectors of transportation? (In fact Nigeria need a wide-scale reform). In this era, no form of transportation exists in total isolation; they are all are inter-connected somewhat and somehow.
Following the latest airliner crash in this country, many had called for aviation reforms […]
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December 11th, 2005 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Aviation, Entries on Old Grandiose Palor (Blogger)
There is tragedy in the land again; I write this blog posting with a heavy and saddened heart. Once again, Nigeria, my home country, is under a heavy cloud of sorrow and anguish following another airliner crash at Port harcourt, a city in south east Nigeria. The plane crashed, according to news report while attempting […]
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