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A director with Dana Air, the air carrier that crashed on 3 June in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, killing more than 150 people, has said that the airline will fly again when investigation is completed.
Gautam Hathiramani, a member of the airline’s board of directors, told the Associated Press in an interview that the carrier has complete faith in its five remaining MD-83s as airlines across the world still fly them.
“We have no hesitation to fly them again because we’ve always had them fully serviced and they’re certified airworthy before they go up in the air,” Hathiramani was quoted to have said.
“The MD-83s in its fleet are all more than 20 years old, an age not unusual among airlines, though planes often require more maintenance and attention the older they become,” the AP reported.
“It’s a tried-and-tested model and it was the right size and configuration for the market,” Hathiramani told AP.
Meanwhile, the airline said most of the relatives of the crashed plane are yet to come forward for identification and for compensation procedures to start.
The airline also said that it is visiting the displaced and focusing on how to compensate the families of the deceased.
There are, however, indications that there were not 153 passengers and crew members on board the plane as the airline has refused to release the post-flight manifest.
Only the pre-flight manifest was released by the airline with 152 names on it.
“It has to come through some procedures,” a consultant for the airline told our correspondent recently.
Efforts to know the exact number onboard the crashed plane have not yielded any result.
Culled from PM News Nigeria.
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