Dana Crash: Pilot acted unprofessionally – former pilot

With the release of the preliminary report on the cause of the Dana Air crash at Iju/Ishaga, Lagos, National President, Concerned Aviation Professionals (CAP), Captain Tito Omaghomi, on Tuesday, said that the pilot of the ill-fated aircraft acted unprofessionally.


Mr Omaghomi, a former pilot with the defunct Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL), made this assertion while speaking to journalists on issues in the aviation sector.


He said the profile of the pilot of the crashed plane should be traced to know how he got 120 hours of flight time between the time he was employed and when the plane crashed on May 3, 2012.


“He was employed by Dana Air on March 14, 2012. He began flying line operations for the company in late May 2012 and had since accrued over 120 hours of flight time,” Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) had said.

Comparing it with the pilot hour of what obtained in NAL, Mr Omaghomi said that for a pilot to become a captain in NAL, he must have flown 6,000 hours.


He argued that from the little released by the AIB, it was clear that both the captain and the first officer acted unprofessionally by not using the normal check list and not telling Nigerians when they lost the first engine.

He said, “the pilot did not use the check list. They acted unprofessionally. It was like a cowboy operation.”


While noting that the greatest emergency that could happen was the loss of cabin pressure, the former NAL pilot said the handling of the Dana Air plane crash was the most unprofessional that he had ever known, adding however, that if the rescue operation was handled properly, there was every tendency that lives would have been saved.
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