•7 months after crash
By UCHE USIM
Seven months after its operation was shut down due to a fatal crash in Lagos that claimed the lives of 163 people, Dana Air yesterday returned to the Nigerian skies amidst fanfare. It recommenced operations with a Lagos-Abuja service at about 10.10am with 67 passengers who expressed joy that the return of the airline would stimulate healthy competition that will benefit travellers.
On board the MD 83 jet were comedians, journalists, aviation union officials and the airline’s board members, among others. Basket Mouth, Harrisong, Dipp, Quba Dance Crew; the Nigeria’s street dance champions were among several other occupants of the plane. A director of Dana Group, Francis Ogboro while commenting on its return to service, assured the flying public of utmost safety in its entire operations. He described the June 3, 2012 crash as an unfortunate and devastating blow.
Ogboro expressed joy that the airline had survived it, adding that the accident has galvanized the company to improve its entire operations. He also disclosed that the airline might expand and change its fleet in the next six months, but insisted that the MD83 aircraft was still being flown in major countries of the world including the United States of America (USA).
“In the past six years that we commenced flight operations, we’ve never played with the maintenance of our aircraft and safety of the passengers and we will continue to do that to ensure that we give Nigerians a safe aircraft for our passengers to fly with. “We are expanding our fleet. It is not impossible that we bring in some other aircraft types as well.
Hopefully, in the next six months, we will bring in some new aircraft, may be Boeing 737 or others. But I re-emphasise, there is nothing wrong with the MD 83 aircraft.” On the two-month deadline given the airline by government to tidy up the payment of compensation to families of the crash victims, Ogboro assured that the airline would meet the deadline.
He, however, explained that the payment of all compensation to the beneficiaries would not come from the airline, rather from the insurance companies. “The payment of the insurance due to the crashed families is not something that will come from Dana Air pocket. We are fully insured. I can assure you that our insurance companies led by Lloyds of London have made adequate arrangement to pay all the families involved in the crash.
“If after two months, payments have not been made, it’s not because Dana Air insurance has not come up with the money to pay.” He assured that all the passengers on board the ill-fated plane were properly insured by its insurance companies both at home and abroad and that the insurers had made adequate arrangement to pay all the families involved in the crash. Ogboro noted that about 90 per cent of the bereaved families had received the initial $30,000 compensation, while about eight families had applied for the remaining $70,000 compensation as at two weeks ago.
Only Almajiri,s are needed to test run Dana air line. Any prominent citizen inside here should write his will before jetting to avoid family squabbles.
This Dana managements are coming up with something special they knew it from the onset that it,s very easy to groom comedians, but professors, academicians, civil engineers, architects can not be conscripted so easily like that. You cann,t deceive wise people so cheaply, this is pure old Italian tricks.
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No matter what happens, lives still go on. There is always room for quick forgitive.
Never trust INDIANS.
Only in Nigeria that an Airline with such very poor maintenance record resulting to the fatal crash that killed such a large number of people can be allowed to fly so soon without a full report of what caused the crash. God save us
Poor maintenance record? Shouldn’t we vent our anger on regulatory bodies instead of the airline operators? Operators are in this business to make money. Plane was insured, passengers were insured. Probably DANA will come out richer. As long as our regulatory agencies do not live up to expectation, planes will continue to drop from the skies.
Has it occurred to Nigerians that the plane was probably rigged up to claim insurance money?
I do not see anything wrong with DANA’s return to the skies. Air France AF447 dropped from the sky over the Atlantic yet the airline was not grounded while investigation was ongoing.
Let us as Nigerians keep in mind that, the security of our LIFE AND PROPERTY is in our own hands no government in this country is bothered about any life or property. PRAY and take caution where necessary.
THE TRUTH IS THAT MOST NIGERIANS DON’T VALUE THEIR LIVES AND THAT IS WHY HEALTH AND SAFETY ARE SOME OF THE NUMEROUS WORDS MISSING FROM THE NIGERIAN DICTIONARY. I cannot enter Dana for now, not even if I was paid to.
i don’t know why you people are complaining here. can’t you die in your own house or did you not see the number who died only during the so called christmas-280? i beg forget. those who wil die will die.
Cowards die many times before their real death.
DANA OR NO DANA PLANES MUST CRASH ONE DAY. U PEOPLE DON’T REMEMBER THOSE WHO PLIGHT THE NIGERIAN ROADS ARE THEY NOT HUMANS? WHAT ABOUT SOSOLISO? DANA AIRLINES COULD AS WELL REBRAND THEIR NAMES WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE. OUR LIVES IS IN THE HANDS OF GOD.
Wont board this flying coffin for any reason.