The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has grounded Dana Air and suspended its operating licences. This is to enable the regulator to carry out a full audit of its operations to ascertain if the carrier can run safe operations.
The development came barely a few days after the carrier had an emergency landing at the Abuja airport.A statement by the NCAA partly read, “The decision is the outcome of a financial and economic health audit carried out on the Airline by the Authority, and the findings of an investigation conducted on the Airline’s flight operations recently, which revealed that Dana Air is no longer in a position to meet its financial obligations and to conduct safe flight operations.
“The NCAA acknowledges the negative effect this pre-emptive decision will have on the airline’s passengers and the travelling public and seeks their understanding, as the safety of flight operations takes priority over all other considerations.” However, some angry passengers of Dana Air who were left stranded at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos on Thursday, vandalised some property of the airline.
The PUNCH gathered that the passengers had arrived the airport early on Thursday with the hope of boarding their scheduled flights only to have met Dana Air’s counter unmanned by any of the airline’s personnel.
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