Finally, NCAA renews Air Peace operating licence

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has renewed the Air Operator Certificate (AOC) of the leading domestic airline in the country, Air Peace. The renewal, according to the airline, came after months of rigorous audit of its operations.

The Air Peace Corporate Communications Manager, Mr. Chris Iwarah, who disclosed this online, said NCAA renewed the airline’s AOC on Thursday, September 6, 2018.The statement explained that the AOC signed by the Director General of the NCAA, Capt. Usman Muhtar, authorised the airline to undertake scheduled, cargo and charter operations.
Speaking further on the development, Iwarah said that it confirmed the sustenance of the high standard of Air Peace’s flight operations. The airline assured that it would continue to place the safety of its guests and crew above any other consideration.

Meanwhile, the airline has confirmed that its Lagos-Owerri flight returned to base today after a passenger on board informed the crew that he smelled smoke in the cabin. Iwarah, who spoke to Abel News, said the Owerri-bound flight had to return to Lagos as a precautionary measure and in line with the airline’s zero-risk policy.

The flight, he said landed smoothly in Lagos with passengers on board maintaining their calm.
Checks by Air Peace engineers, he added, confirmed that there was no smoke anywhere in the aircraft.

According to him, “We confirm that our 9 a.m. Lagos-Owerri flight returned to base on Friday after one of our esteemed guests informed our crew that he was smelling smoke in the cabin. Although nothing indicated in the flight deck that there was anything wrong with the aircraft, our crew decided to return to base as a precautionary measure and in compliance with our zero-risk policy.

“The aircraft landed smoothly in Lagos and our team of engineers immediately conducted thorough checks on the aircraft while all our guests calmly remained in their seats. The checks confirmed that there was neither smoke nor any other fault with the aircraft. Despite the assurances of our engineers that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the aircraft, we decided to transfer our valued guests to another aircraft to enable our teams do another round of checks in line with our high safety standards.”

“We commend our valued guests for their calm disposition and cooperation while the checks lasted. Although checks by our engineers confirmed that the aircraft was in perfect working condition, we encourage our guests to always feel free to share anything they notice in our flight operations with us as critical stakeholders of the Air Peace family,” he said.