It emerged last night that the management of Dana Air which operated the aircraft that crashed over Lagos, yesterday, was warned by Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State over the operational service of its airplanes.
Reacting to the air crash the governor urged regulatory agencies to ensure that airline operators adhered strictly to global aviation operational standards.
Speaking through his Commissioner for Information, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, Governor Akpabio recounted that he had, in a recent telephone chat cautioned the Managing Director of Dana Airlines to ensure that its aircraft were air worthy so as not to endanger the lives of Nigerians.
This warning was on the heels of an averted air disaster involving Dana aircraft enroute Lagos from Uyo which had technical problems that forced the aircraft to hover for hours before finally making it back to Lagos where it managed to land.
The Governor who called on airline operators in the country not to experiment with people's lives maintained that similar situations had caused serial air disasters in the past thereby resulting in massive loss of lives and the extinction of some affected airlines in the country. Akpabio expressed condolences to the families of the deceased and prayed for the repose of their souls.
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