NCAA reissues Dana Air with new AOC

After going through  compulsory re-certification exercise, which includes 50 hours of test flights, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) on Wednesday, reissued another Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) to Dana Air to recommence flight operations.
At a low key ceremony at the agency’s headquarters at the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, the Director-General of NCAA, Dr Harold Demuren, handed over the new AOC to the Managing Director of the airline, Mr Jackey Hathiramani. The airline, however, declined to confirm when it would return to air services, saying that it would return only after internal issues had been resolved.

With the new AOC, the airline can now commence operations since its flights were suspended on June 4, 2012 after no fewer than 163 people both on board and on ground perished when its aircraft crashed at Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos on Sunday, June 3, 2012.
It will be recalled that the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, restored the airline’s AOC in September, but the airline could not return to service immediately.