Why captain was grounded After Port Harcourt incident – Air Peace

By Dickson Omobola

Nigeria’s largest airline, Air Peace, has said the skipper progressive successful the Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo International Airport, Omagwa successful Port Harcourt incidental had been grounded and relieved from further formation duty.

This came arsenic the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, NSIB, said preliminary probe into the incident, involving its Boeing 737-524 aircraft, with nationality and registration marks 5N-BQQ, showed that “initial toxicological tests conducted connected the formation unit revealed affirmative results for definite substances, including indicators of intoxicant consumption. A compartment unit subordinate besides tested affirmative for THC, the psychoactive constituent successful cannabis.”

However, successful a statement, Air Peace clarified that the skipper was suspended for failing to adhere to Crew Resource Management, CRM, principles and for disregarding modular go-around procedures contempt proposal from his co-pilot, not for investigating affirmative connected a breathalyser, arsenic the NSIB had yet to formally pass specified a effect to the airline.

According to Air Peace, it conducts predominant intoxicant and cause tests connected its unit owed to its “very strict intoxicant usage argumentation that is stricter than the 8 hours earlier the formation arsenic provided successful the regulations. Drug usage is simply a no-no.”

The connection by the airline’s absorption besides revealed that “the First Officer, co-pilot, who demonstrated professionalism successful calling for a go-around to his captain, has been reinstated into progressive flying duties, with afloat support from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA.”

The connection reads: “Air Peace conducts predominant intoxicant and cause tests connected our crew. We person a precise strict intoxicant usage argumentation that is stricter than the 8 hours earlier the formation arsenic provided successful the regulations. Drug usage is simply a no-no.

“Following the incident, we took contiguous and decisive action: the skipper of the affected formation was grounded and relieved from further formation work to day for nonaccomplishment to adhere to Crew Resource Management, CRM, principles and for disregarding modular go-around procedures arsenic advised by his co-pilot but not for investigating affirmative to breathalyser trial arsenic the effect was not communicated to america by NSIB to date.

“Contrary to reports successful the media, the First Officer (co-pilot), who demonstrated professionalism successful calling for a go-around to his captain, has been reinstated into progressive flying duties, with afloat support from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA. The NCAA cleared him. If helium was progressive successful cause oregon intoxicant use, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority would not person cleared him to resume formation duties.

“However, if the relieved skipper tested affirmative to the breathalyzer test, past we indispensable summation the frequence of our intoxicant and cause tests connected our crew.

“Again, the value of Enhanced Crew Resource Management Training tin not beryllium implicit emphasised. We volition intensify strict Fitness-for-Duty checks and Stronger Internal Monitoring to forestall immoderate breach of our zero-tolerance information policy.

“Air Peace has consistently maintained a beardown information grounds and strictly implements planetary champion practices successful each aspects of its operations, and we reassure our esteemed passengers and the Nigerian nationalist that information volition ne'er beryllium compromised successful Air Peace.”

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