List of airlines operating in Nigeria and their average fleet age

List of airlines operating in Nigeria 

and their average fleet age

Below is a list of airlines operating in Nigeria and their average fleet age, as seen on http://planespotter.com , have in mind the oldest allowed in Nigeria is 22 years while Russia is 10 years.

Air Nigeria
 
Fleet Size: 12 Aircraft

Average Fleet Age: 13.5 years

Oldest Aircraft: 18.2 years

AeroContractors
 
Fleet Size: 11 Aircraft (+ 1 On Order/Planned)

Average Fleet Age: 19.7 years

Oldest Aircraft: 20.7 years

Africa Charter Services
 

Fleet Size: 2 Aircraft

Average Fleet Age: 32.1 years

Oldest Aircraft: 32.8 years


Air Taraba
  
Fleet Size: 0 (+1 on order/planned)

Average fleet age: 10.5 years

Arik Air
 
Fleet size: 21 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 5.5 years

Oldest Aircraft: 11.3 years


Axiom Air
  
Fleet size: 1 Aircraft

Fleet age: 24.5 years

Bellview Airlines
 

Fleet size: 2 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 31.9 years

Oldest aircraft: 33.2 years

Chanchangi Airlines
 

Fleet size: 6 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 25.6 years

Oldest aircraft: 30.2 years


Dana Air
 
Fleet size: 4 Aircraft (used to be five until Sunday’s crash)

Average fleet age: 21.4 years

Oldest aircraft: 21.7 years


First Nation Airways
  
Fleet size: 3 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 18.4 years

Oldest aircraft: 19.3 years


IRS Airlines
 
 
Fleet size: 5 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 21.6 years

Oldest aircraft: 22.5 years


Kabo Air

 

Fleet size: 5 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 34.5 years

Oldest aircraft: 41.3 years


Max Air
 
Fleet size: 6 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 24.1 years

Oldest aircraft: 25.7 years


Overland Airways
 
Fleet size: 2 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 22.2 years

Oldest aircraft: 25.6 years


Tradecraft Airlines
 
Fleet size: 1 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 25.4 years


Transky Airlines


Fleet size: 1 Aircraft

Average fleet age: 28.2 years

22 Ghanaians, 5 Nigerians arrested for oil theft in Rivers

22 Ghanaians, 5 Nigerians arrested for oil theft in Rivers

Nigerian troops have arrested 22 Ghanaians and five Nigerians whom they caught stealing from an oil pipeline in Rivers state, impounding two boats, one of which was carrying 25,000 metric tonnes of suspected crude oil, the army said on Monday according to Reuters news agency.

Oil majors say bunkering is a major headache in the oil rich Niger Delta, a labyrinth of creeks and swamps that has for decades been plagued by militant activity and poor environmental management, leading to devastating oil spills.

“Our troops arrested the suspects on Sunday while they were doing illegal bunkering around Awoba flow station in … Rivers state. They vandalised the pipeline and stole the crude,” said Brigadier General Tukur Buratai, the state’s top commander.

“We arrested 22 Ghanaians, five Nigerians and two of their vessels. One of the vessels was loaded with 25,000 metric tonnes of substance suspected to be crude oil.”

An amnesty in 2009 sharply reduced militancy in the onshore swamps and waterways of the Niger Delta but criminal gangs tapping oil pipelines is still a major problem.

Royal Dutch Shell estimates that bunkering siphons 150,000 barrels of oil per day from Nigeria’s production, and has become a major deterrent to exploring for new fields.

The company said on Friday it had declared force majeure on Nigerian Bonny Light crude oil liftings due to oil theft and that 60,000 bpd of oil had been shut down.

Dana Crash- We’re looking for our dad and mom

We’re looking for our dad and mom

–3 wailing kids at Dana plane crash site

...As Fashola takes over their custody

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 Sun News Publishing

Several hours after the Dana plane crashed in Iju, Lagos, killing about 185 people, three children aged 11, nine and seven, are still searching for their parents yesterday, wailing. The Dana aircraft crashed into their two-storey building after developing fault midair in the Lagos suburb.  Four houses were destroyed when the plane landed on them.

Amid sobs, Joel, 11, Esther, nine, and seven-year-old Chisom Okwuchukwu, were at the crash site yesterday frantically searching for their parents with nobody taking care of them until Governor Babatunde Fashola intervened.

Joel told our correspondent that their parents sent them on errand, only for them to come back and met their home being razed by the ill fated Dana aircraft, which crashed into it. They have not located their parents since then.

Joel said they slept in the house of a Good Samaritan on the night of the incident, wailing that they had not seen their parents since the incident happened. According to him, their father had asked him and Chisom to look for Esther, who was sent to fetch an electrician from the neighbourhood but had not returned.

Joel said since Esther was not forthcoming, their father asked them to look for her, pointing out that it was while they were coming with Esther that the incident occurred. Confused, the children said they could only remember the name of one of their uncles in Abuja,  who is called Tony Okechukwu.

Meanwhile, Governor Fashola immediately took custody of the children  by taking them to the Lagos State House, Ikeja, pending when a relative of theirs would be found. Fashola said government would take care of the children, saying they were fully protected . A Help Line – 08023414111 – was also opened at the Lagos State Television (LTV), on Lateef Jakande Road, Ikeja, to enable anybody, who knows the children, including their uncle, Tony Okwuchukwu, to contact the state government with sufficient proof for a possible reunion with their parents and relations.

The governor, who spoke with journalists after inspection of the crash site said: “My sympathy and condolences go to all of the victims and their families. It is really hard, finding words to express our pain and grief here but our condolences go out to the families of the bereaved and friends and relations, ordinary people, trying to earn a living end up so tragically and the families of young Nigerians whose lives had been cut short.”

 “It is a very traumatic and painful experience but we condole with the management and staff of Dana Air and we want to commend the first responder, the fire service, LASEMA, NEMA and Red Cross for the support received.”

The governor, who appealed to the media and other people thronging the crash site to allow rescue operations take place, noted that it was not a tourist site. “It is an investigation site and we should keep our distance and allow the first responder to do their work. The difference between whether anybody would have survived or not is a question of how quickly they can get to that person and we should not be in the way of the first responder when they come to this kind of site,” he added.

How to Survive a Plane Crash

Commercial airlines around the world now carry nearly 2.5 billion passengers a year, and despite the inherent dangers of rocketing through the sky miles above the Earth in a very heavy piece of metal, these travelers are amazingly safe. In fact, the odds of dying on a commercial airline flight are as low as 9 million to 1! That said, a lot can go wrong at 33,000 feet above the ground, and if you’re unlucky enough to be aboard when something does, the decisions you make could mean the difference between life and death. Keep in mind that about 95% of airplane crashes have survivors, so even if the worst does happen, your odds aren’t as bad as you might think.

Steps

1. 1
   Wear long pants, a long-sleeve t-shirt, and sturdy, comfortable, lace-up shoes. Although you may want to be comfortable or professional-looking on a flight, sandals or high heels make it hard to move quickly within the wreckage. High heels are not allowed on the evacuation slides and you can cut your feet and toes on glass or get flammable liquids on or in your sandals if you wear them.
   
   
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   • Loose or elaborate clothing also poses a risk, as it can get snagged on obstacles in the close confines of a plane. If you know you’re going to be flying over cold areas, dress appropriately, and consider keeping a jacket on your lap. You’ll need to be able to stay warm if you survive the crash. Even if that is not a consideration, the more of your body is covered during impact, the less likely you are to receive serious injuries or burns. Cotton or wool clothing is also preferable as it is less flammable. Wool is preferable to cotton when flying over water, as wool does not lose its insulating properties to the degree cotton does when wet.
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   Book the right seats. Because the initial impact is most often survivable, the key to living to tell about a crash is frequently how quickly you can get out. To this end, it’s best to get seats as close as possible to an exit, and aisle seats are generally preferable. In addition, try to sit in the back of the plane. Passengers in the tail of the aircraft have 40% higher survival rates than those in the first few rows. ^[1]
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    Boring, yes. But the flight attendant's safety briefing may save your life--if you pay attention.
   Read the safety information card and pay attention to the pre-flight safety speech. Yes, you’ve heard it all before, and you’ll probably never need it, but if you keep your headphones on during the pre-flight instructions or ignore the safety card, you’ll be missing out on information that could be vital in the event of a crash. Don’t assume you know it all already, either. Every type of airplane has different safety instructions. If you're sitting in an exit row, study the door and make sure you know how to open it if you need to. In normal circumstances the flight attendant will open the door, but if they are dead or injured, you'll need to do it.
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   Make a plan. If the plane is going to crash, you almost always have several minutes to prepare before impact. Use this time to once again review where the exits are, and try to count the number of seats between your row and the exit row—that way you’ll know when you’ve reached the exit even if you can’t see it. Assess the situation as well as possible. Try to determine what surface the plane will land on so you can customize your preparations. If you’re going to be landing in water, for example, you’ll want to put your life vest on—don’t inflate it until you’re out of the plane—and if you’re going to be landing in cold weather, you should try to get a blanket or jacket to keep you warm once outside.
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    Keep your seat belt securely fastened at all times.
   Keep your seat belt securely fastened at all times. If the plane crashes while you’re sleeping, you’ll be glad you kept your seat belt on. In any case, make sure it is placed around you snugly before impact. Every centimeter of slack in your seat belt triples the G-Force you'll experience in the crash, so keep it snug! Also, push that snug seat belt down as low over your pelvis as possible. You should be able to feel the upper ridge of the pelvis above the upper edge of the belt. Why? The pelvis is a very strong structure that handles force well. However, if your belt slides up into your stomach, you have a greater chance of sustaining dangerous internal injuries. (Note: this also applies to car seat belts.)
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   Brace yourself for impact. If you know you’re going to crash, brace yourself. Return your seat back to its full upright position and assume one of two "brace positions."
   
   
   • If the seat or bulkhead in front of you is close enough to easily reach, place one hand palm-down on the back of that seat, cross the other hand palm-down over the first hand, and rest your forehead against your hands (don’t lace your fingers). It is also sometimes recommended to put your head directly against the seat in front of you and lace your fingers behind your head, tucking your upper arms against the sides of your head.
   • If you don’t have a seat close in front of you, bend forward and put your chest on your thighs and your head between your knees. Cross your wrists in front of your lower calves, and grab your ankles. In either position, your feet should be flat on the floor and further back than your knees to reduce injuries to your feet and legs, which you will need in order to successfully exit the craft after impact. Place your legs as far under the seat as possible to avoid breaking your shin bones.
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   Remain calm. It can be easy to get swept up in the pandemonium immediately preceding and following a crash. Keep a cool head, though, and you’re more likely to get out alive. Remember that even in the worst wrecks, you do have a chance of survival. You’ll need to be able to think methodically and rationally to maximize that chance.
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   Put your oxygen mask on before assisting others. You’ve probably heard this on every commercial flight you’ve been on, but it’s worth repeating. If the integrity of the cabin is compromised, you have only about 15 seconds (often less if you’re a smoker or have circulatory or respiratory problems) to start breathing through your oxygen mask before you are rendered unconscious.
   
   
   • While you may feel an impulse to first help your children or the elderly passenger sitting next to you, you’ll be no good to anyone if you don’t remain conscious.
   • You can put somebody else's oxygen mask on even if they're unconscious.
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   Protect yourself from smoke. Fire and, more commonly, smoke is responsible for a large percentage of crash fatalities. The smoke in an airplane fire can be very thick and highly toxic, so cover your nose and mouth with a cloth to avoid breathing it in. If possible, moisten the cloth to provide extra protection.
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    Get out of the airplane as quickly as possible. It’s critical to get out of the aircraft without delay—if fire or smoke is present, you will generally have less than two minutes to safely exit the plane.
    
    
    • Obey the flight attendants’ post-crash instructions. Flight attendants undergo rigorous training to make sure they know what to do in the event of a crash. If a flight attendant is able to instruct or assist you—sometimes they won’t be able to do so after a crash—listen to him or her, and cooperate to increase everyone’s chances of survival.
    • Don’t try to rescue your belongings. It’s common sense, but still some people don’t seem to get it. Leave everything behind. It will only slow you down.
    • Make sure the exit you choose is safe. Look through the window to determine if there is fire or some other hazard outside of an exit. If there is, try the exit across the plane, or proceed to another set of exits.
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    Get at least 500 feet upwind from the aircraft. If you’re stranded in a remote area, the best thing to do usually is to stay close to the aircraft to await rescuers. You don’t want to be too close, though. Fire or explosion can happen at any time after a crash, so put some distance between you and the plane. If the crash is in open-water, swim as far away from the plane wreckage as possible.
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    Tips

    • If you have no time to prepare for the crash and you forget some of these instructions, you can find much of the most important information in the safety card in the seat back pocket in front of you.
    • Remain in the brace position until the plane comes to a complete stop, a secondary impact or bounce will often follow the initial impact.
    • In the event of a water landing, remove your shoes and excess clothes before or immediately after entering the water. This will make swimming and floating easier.
    • While it’s essential to stay calm after a crash, you also need to be careful not to succumb to “negative panic.” Negative panic is a strange inability to react assertively and appropriately to the situation. For example, a person may just remain in his or her seat instead of heading toward the exit. Watch out for this in your fellow passengers or traveling companions.
    • The one exception to the “leave everything behind” rule may be a jacket or blanket, and you should only consider carrying that if you have it ready to go at impact. While having appropriate clothing may save your life if you’re stranded for a while, you first have to get out of the aircraft safely.
    • If you can find a pillow or something similarly soft to protect your head during impact, use it.
    • It’s quite common for people to forget how to unbuckle their seat belts after a crash. It seems easy enough, but in your dazed condition the first instinct is often to try to push a button as you would for a car seat belt. When that doesn’t work, it’s easy to panic. Before impact, make a mental note to remember how to quickly and easily unbuckle your seat belt.
    • Place your baggage beneath the seat in front of you. It can help prevent your legs from snapping under the seat.
    • Remove sharp objects—pens, pencils, etc.—from your pockets before a crash. Better yet, don’t carry them at all. Nearly any loose object on a plane can become a deadly projectile in the event of a crash.
    • If you have nothing to moisten a cloth with (in order to protect yourself from smoke inhalation), you can use urine. This sort of breach of decorum is perfectly acceptable in such a situation.

    
    

    Warnings

    • Avoid wearing synthetic fabrics while traveling by plane. If a fire breaks out in the cabin, these materials will melt to your skin.
    • Avoid excessive alcohol consumption before or during a flight. Alcohol impairs your ability to quickly and methodically react to the crash and evacuate the plane.
    • Never hold your infant or toddler on your lap. While it may be cheaper than buying a seat, your child is almost guaranteed not to survive if you are holding him or her. Get a seat for your child and use an approved child restraint system.
    • Don’t get down on the floor of the plane. If there is smoke in the cabin, try to stay low, but do not crawl. You will likely be trampled or injured by other passengers attempting to escape in the low-visibility conditions.
    • Don’t push other passengers. An orderly exit increases everybody’s chance of survival, and if you panic and start shoving, you may be faced with retaliation.
    • When landing in water, do not inflate your life vest until you are outside of the aircraft. If you do, you run the risk of becoming trapped when the aircraft fills with water.

How to Survive a Plane Crash: 11 steps - wikiHow

How to Survive a Plane Crash: 11 steps - wikiHow

Top 10 Airline Safety Tips

While airline passengers have to deal with constant changes in airport security,airline baggage rules, and even in the kinds of items that are prohibited and restricted from airline flights, a lot of the basic common sense suggestions for flying safely and with minimum hassle haven't changed much at all.

1. Fly on Nonstop Routings

   Most airliner accidents happen during the takeoff, climb, descent, and landing phase of flight, so the easiest way to reduce your chance of getting in an accident is to take fewer flights. If you have a choice, and there isn't much difference in price, flying nonstop would not only reduce exposure to the most accident prone phases of flight, but it will probably take quite a bit of time off your trip too.

2. Choose Larger Aircraft

   Currently, aircraft with more than 30 passenger seats were all designed and certified under the strictest regulations. Also, in the unlikely event of a serious accident, larger aircraft provide a better opportunity for passenger survival. If you review AirSafe.com's list of fatal airline passenger events by aircraft model, you'll see that larger aircraft models tend to have better survival statistics.

3. Pay Attention to the Preflight Briefing

   Although the information seems repetitious, the locations of the closest emergency exits may be different depending on the aircraft that you fly on and seat you are in. Some passenger safety briefings include a few words about the position to take in an emergency landing, and AiSafe.com has put together a video below that goes into much greater detail, showing six common crash positions.

   The Six Basic Crash Positions

   For more AirSafe.com videos, visit the AirSafe.com channel at YouTube, or review the list of AirSafe.com audio and video podcasts.

4. Keep the Overhead Storage Bin Free of Heavy Articles

   Overhead storage bins may not be able to hold very heavy objects during turbulence, so if you or another passenger have trouble lifting an article into the bin, have it stored elsewhere. A heavy bag falling out of an overhead bin can cause a serious injury, so if one is above your head, try to move the bag or change your seat. Check out AirSafe.com's Top 10 Baggage Tips for more suggestions for dealing with carry-on and checked luggage.

5. Keep Your Seat Belt Fastened While You are Seated

   Keeping the belt on when you are seated provides that extra protection you might need to help you avoid injuries from flight turbulence.

6. Listen to the Flight Attendants

   The primary reason flight attendants are on an aircraft is for safety, so if one of them asks you to do something like fasten your seat belts, do it first and ask questions later. You can also take other steps to improve your safety and comfort in the cabin like wearing comfortable clothes. You should also get up a walk around on longer flights to help avoid problems like deep vein thrombosis.

7. Don't Bring Any Hazardous Material

   There are rather long lists of hazardous materials that are not allowed, but common sense should tell you that you shouldn't bring gasoline, corrosives, poisonous gases, and other such items on the aircraft unless they were allowed by the airline and shipped in a proper container. While the list of banned materials is too long to remember, you should take the time to find out about the most common prohibited and hazardous items you should not bring on board.
   
   

8. Let the Flight Attendant Pour Your Hot Drinks

   Flight attendants are trained to handle hot drinks like coffee or tea in a crowded aisle on a moving aircraft, so allow them to pour the drink and hand it too you.

9. Don't Drink Too Much

   The atmosphere in an airliner cabin is pressurized to about the same altitude as Denver, so any alcohol you consume will affect you more strongly than at sea level. Moderation is a good policy at any altitude, and in the air limiting your drinking is a good way to reduce the chance of an air rage incidentinvolving you or someone else. Also, you may want to find out more about the long-term psychological effects of alcoholism.

10. Keep Your Wits About You

    In the unlikely event that you are involved in an emergency situation such as a precautionary emergency evacuation, follow the directions of the flight attendants and flight crew and exit the aircraft as quickly as possible.
    Bonus tip: You might find that wearing hearing protection during your next flight may relieve ear popping and pressure, and make your next flight more quiet and comfortable.

Word of Wisdom

A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For
many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's
showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told
him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited
signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the
morning of his graduation his father called him into his private
study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine
son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son
a beautiful wrapped gift box.

Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man
opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible. Angrily,
he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you
give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the holy
book.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in
business.
He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his
father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He
had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make
arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had
passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He
needed to come home immediately and take care things.
When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and
regret filled his heart.

He began to search his father's important papers and
saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With
tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he
read those words, a car key dropped from an envelope
taped behind the Bible.
It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the
sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation,
and the words...PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not
packaged as we expected.

70 bodies evacuated from the Dana Air crash site

70 bodies evacuated from the Dana Air crash site

Managing Director of the Lagos state Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Femi Osanyintolu, has confirmed to Channels Television that about 70 bodies have been evacuated from the Dana Air crash site at Iju-Ishaga.

The bodies have been taken to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) mortuary for DNA examination.

A big crane owned by construction giant, Julius Berger PLC, has been deployed to the crash site and it is presently conducting the excavation. A Dana Air flight 0992 crashed into a two-storey building in the densely populated area of Lagos state, killing all 153 passengers and crew on board.

According to the LASEMA boss, four of the five residents that were rescued from buildings affected by the plane crash, that were taken to the hospital have being discharged and the remaining still receiving treatment.

Dr Ogusanyo, also alerted that buildings around the crash site are not safe for residence. He therefore announced that the governor of Lagos state, has instructed that residents whose houses were affected in the explosion that occurred on the crash site, will be relocated to the Agbowa Relief Camp in Ikorodu.

Agitated crowd in the area are having a tough time with security operatives on ground, as most of the people want to gain access to the crash site but they are denied access by the stern looking officers which is made up of the military, police force, Federal road safety and Civil defence corp.

The governors of Lagos and Ogun states, were early visitors to the crash site on Monday morning and the Ogun state governor, Ibikunle Amosun described the situation as “a big tragedy to the nation.