The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has raised the alarm over increasing cases of aviation fuel contamination and poor adherence to standards by players in the sector. NCAA raised the alarm on Thursday during an aviation stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja. It said that Max Air’s Boeing 737-300 aircraft failed to take off from the Yola Airport in Adamawa State on July 7 because its main tank was filled with water.
, the NCAA-stakeholders meeting was held just as the House of Representatives resolved at its plenary to probe the increasing cases of aviation fuel contamination and poor adherence to standards by players in the Aviation sector of the transport industry.NCAA is also set to constitute a committee to ensure that aviation fuel quality is of a high standard.
SaharaReporters had exclusively obtained a memo from Max Air dated July 9 and signed by Mubarak Haladu, the Head of Maintenance which addressed the source of the “Fuel contamination.
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