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Lagos Radar Functional …As NAMA Refutes 'Near Air Disaster' Story
12/17/09
Lagos Radar Functional …As NAMA Refutes 'Near Air Disaster' Story
By Lateef Lawal
Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA)has declared the newly installed Radar in Lagos as functional and confirmed the integrity of the equipment to handle flights at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja without undue delays. The Director of Operations of the Agency, Mr Adebisi Adedara, dismissed claims in a Nigerian newspaper publication that a power surge on Sunday at the radar site put two airborne planes on path of collision. He pointed out that at no time was an incident of air miss reported by any pilot on account of the power surge. ( Continues below..... )
Photo Above: Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria.
Adedera, conducting Aviation journalists round the Radar facility, explained that even on account of a power failure as experienced momentarily on Sunday, "our air traffic controllers are trained and licensed on Procedural Control. We acted accordingly and landed all the planes. There is no aircraft that hovered for several hours as claimed in the said report. Neither Ethiopian airline nor Qatar Airways lodged any incident of near miss as reported in This Day Newspaper today. The entire write up is the imagination of the fictitious writer. In aviation ,you can not hide anything as it is mandatory to log incident[s] as reference material for future use as occasion may demand for such by regulatory agency".
The director who displayed the log book for press scrutiny to confirm that nothing was amiss during the incidence of power surge, maintained that the two back up generators were serviceable as against what was reported by the press. The generators were even working during the visit to the site by my entourage, Adedera concluded. Corroborating the director's stance, the General Manager, Public Affairs, Mr Supo Atobatele said: "NAMA will like to seize this opportunity to confirm the integrity of the new radar in handling traffic, just as the management is assuring air travellers of their safety" .
Lateef Lawal ( NigerianAviationNews )
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