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Meet Captain. Abimbola Jayeola the first female helicopter Captain in Nigeria who flew the bristow Helicopters which had a successful ditching yesterday in lagos. All onboard survived the impact. History was made in december 17th 2014 when Captain Abimbola Jayeola (Captain AB) became Nigeria’s first ever female Helicopter Captain. She …

Bristow Helicopters (Nigeria) Limited, confirmed today that one of its helicopters, was involved in a water landing near Lagos at about 10.25 a.m. local time on return from an offshore platform. The aircraft, a Sikorsky S-76C++, had departed on a routine crew transfer flight offshore with nine passengers and a …

Minutes after the ill-fated Bristow Helicopter crashed into the sea off Lagos waters,  personnel of the Nigerian Navy has successfully rescued all 11 occupants on board. The occupants made up of two members of crew,  including a female co-pilot,  and nine passengers were rescued after a distress signal was intercepted …

Months after a Bristow Helicopter crash landed into the lagoon at the Oworonshoki area of Lagos,  another helicopter from the same stable today crash landed again in Lagos. Although details are still sketchy,  THISDAY gathered that the whereabouts of the crash was yet unknown. When contacted, Bristow said what happened …

An explosion and fire blew a gaping hole in a commercial airliner forcing it to make an emergency landing at Mogadishu’s international airport, officials and witnesses said. The pilot said he thinks it was a bomb. An aviation expert who looked at photographs of the hole in the fuselage said …

A worker with Arik Air, Grace Utum, has gone missing after a visit to her lover, Ihuoma Amelogu, who lives in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the 29-year-old Cross River State indigene had left her Ikeja office for her lover’s house on January 1, …

A PASSENGER plane was forced to make an emergency landing after two female flight attendants started a shocking midair punch-up. Trouble broke out around 40 minutes into the Delta flight from Los Angeles to Minneapolis between two cabin attendants arguing about “work issues”. The pair allegedly began a fist fight …

Flights on Pakistan’s state-owned airline have been suspended after two staff were killed during a protest against plans to privatise the ailing carrier. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began shutting down services on Tuesday in solidarity with the victims after a violent confrontation between striking employees and law enforcers near the …

CHENNAI: An Air India woman cabin crew member was caught pilfering food items meant for inflight use on an international flight on the Chennai-Colombo-Chennai sector. Sources said the incident came to light when the crew member’s bag was screened on a baggage screening machine after the flight AI 274 arrived …

NEW DELHI: Air India is likely to ground around 125 cabin crew for their failure to maintain weight requirements as prescribed by aviation regulator DGCA. Some of them may be assigned ground duty, while others can be offered voluntary retirement, Air India sources said. The national carrier had given an …