The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau has found Max Air’s maintenance activities faulty in relation to the airlines’s recent air incident
The Bureau’s Director General Akin Olateru, in a release of the preliminary investigation report, says findings show the airline did not comply with manufacturer’s recommendations on wheel changing.
It’s quality control department did not supervise the maintenance action of the brake unit and wheel change ahead of the flight’s take off.
The Yola air traffic control system did not record conversation between the pilot and duty controller on the day of the incident.
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There was severe fire damage on the no 2 main wheel assembly during the incident.
The Bureau wants the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority to conduct regular safety management system assessments to evaluate the capability of max air to effectively manage safety.
It wants the ncaa to also invoke relevant sections of Nig.CARs 2015 in accordance with IS 1.3.3 legal enforcement actions to non compliant operators on continuous overwriting of cockpit voice recorder information.
By Ajibola Adedoye