NSIB issues safety recommendations after Preliminary Report on Max Air Incident
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The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has issued Immediate Safety Recommendations on the incident that involved Max Air aircraft B737-400 with registration mark 5N-MBD on May 7 after a preliminary investigations.
The aircraft took off from Yola,Adamawa for Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport,Abuja when the incident occurred.
Addrressing the media in Abuja,the Bureau Director General,Engr.Akin Olateru indicated that:
- Max Air Limited Quality Assurance should ensure maintenance activities are supervised and monitored in accordance with Maintenance Control Manual.
- NCAA should;
(a)Conduct regular safety management system (SMS) assessments to evaluate the capability of Max Air limited to effectively manage safety.
(b)Ensure that the PMI and POI of Max Air Limited increase surveillance and oversight to ensure maintenance and flight operations arecarried out in accordance with NCAA Technical Guidance Material (TGM) Volume IV (Airworthiness Inspector’s Handbook) Chapter 23 (Continuing Surveillance) and TGM Volume III Flight Operations Inspector’s Handbook Chapter 30 (Continuing Surveillance).
- Max Air Limited should ensure that flight crew display good situational awareness and airmanship at all times during conduct of flight operations in accordance with Max Air ops manual.
- NCAA should invoke the relevant sections of Nig.CARs 2015 in accordance with IS 1.3.3 Legal Enforcement Actions to non-compliant operators with the AOL (NCAA/FSG/AOL/19/03) on continuous overwriting of Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) Information.
- NCAA should ensure FAAN/NAMA provide uninterrupted power supply in order to avoid vulnerability of their operational equipment.
