NIMET, AIB Record Safety Milestone

The Nigerian Meteoro
logical Agency (NIMET) and the Accident Investigation Bureau  (AIB) recorded significant achievements last year to enhanced aviation safety and security in the sector.
Some of these achievements by NIMET include the installation of various essential facilities such as the Doppler Weather Radar and the calibrated  meteorological instrument used to detect and track hazardous weather systems on real-time basis and guarantees weather data reliability.
Wind shear is a major weather hazard that has contributed to many aircraft accidents in the past, but with deployment of that equipment, the occurrence of low level wind shear can now be detected and early warnings, relayed to pilots through the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) before take-off and landing.
Spokesman of the Aviation Parastatals Mr Yakubu Dati said the existence of these instruments has guaranteed accurate and timely weather forecasts, measurement and observations which have met ICAO standard and pilots now obtain accurate and reliable weather information prior to every flight out of any Nigerian airport.
In addition of the above achievements the AIB is now able to download, extract, decode and analyse the aircraft accident data from the (Cockpit Voice Recorder) CVR and (Flight Data Recorder) FDR (Black Boxes) thus saving time and money and speeding up the investigation process and upgrading the skills of the aircraft accident investigation.
“With the public release of all nine outstanding accident investigation reports from previous years reports, critical safety information in the form of 36 safety recommendations have been pushed out for implementation by the NCAA to aid in further enhancing the safety net”, Dati said.