{"id":2736,"date":"2013-04-27T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/ncaa-grounds-controversial-aircraft-that-flew-amaechi-into-akure-on-grounds-of-expired-documents\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T21:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T21:26:46","slug":"ncaa-grounds-controversial-aircraft-that-flew-amaechi-into-akure-on-grounds-of-expired-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/ncaa-grounds-controversial-aircraft-that-flew-amaechi-into-akure-on-grounds-of-expired-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA grounds controversial aircraft that flew Amaechi into Akure on grounds of expired documents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Citizens Platform<\/p>\n

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Gov. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

The Nigeria civil Aviation Authority(NCAA), yesterday declared that the controversial aircraft in the service of Governor Rotimi Amaechi \u00a0of Rivers state \u00a0was on an illegal operations in the country.<\/p>\n

Consequent upon this, the NCAA has grounded the Bombardier -BD \u00a0700 , Global Express aircraft with registration number N565RS, which the authority said had an expired clearance approval \u00a0effective April 2, 2013,<\/p>\n

Addressing reporters yesterday at the Aviation House, the headquarters of NCAA, the director of airworthiness \u00a0standards, Engineer Benedict \u00a0Adeyileka, explained that the while the aircraft was still operating illegally , it has been sighted in several places including Owerri and Akure.<\/p>\n

The NCAA director said about the incident:” The controversial aircraft on the service of Governor Rotimi \u00a0Amaechi \u00a0is operating illegally on the country.<\/p>\n

The aircraft a Bombardier BD 700 , Global Express with registration number N565RS, has its clearance approval expired since Tuesday ,April 2, 2013, by our records the last flight clearance for this aircraft was approved for operations on Thursday March 28, 2013 on Accra\/Port Harcourt and Accra to terminate on April 2, 2013. With this development , the aircraft has exceeded the extra two days or forty eight hours leeway for it to leave the country.<\/p>\n

While still operating illegally, the aircraft has been sighted in several places, including Owerri and Akure, the owner of this aircraft according to the certificate of registration is Bank of Utah Trustees of Salt Lake City , Utah United States of America.<\/p>\n

The clearance for the aircraft was sought by Caverton Helicopters on March 27,2013.<\/p>\n

NCAA did not ground the aircraft prior to request for start up in Akure on Friday 26, April 2013.<\/p>\n

Consequently, this aircraft in reference is hereby grounded at any airport that is located right now in the country.”<\/p>\n

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