The authorities of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday said the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Recorder (CPR) also known as the “black box” of the crashed Wings Aviation aircraft are yet to be located by the search team.The elusive plane was found in the mountainous area of Busi in Obanliku local government area of Cross River State last Saturday.
The Director-General of NEMA, AVM Mohammed Audu-Bida (rtd), who updated journalists on the ill-fated Beechcraft 1900D aircraft, said a combined team of rescue officials from NEMA, National Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and representatives of the Wings Aviation Airline was able to recover some human remains suspected to be those of the occupants of the aircraft.
The twin turbo prop 19-seater aircraft with registration number 5N JAH disappeared on March 15, 2008, with a three-member crew on a flight from Lagos to Bebi Airstrip, near the Obudu Ranch Resort in Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State. The crew members were the pilot, Captain Augustine Egbedi; the co-pilot, First Officer Mohammed and a marketing executive, Ms Fubarata Jack. See: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=121668
Just a few days short of 6months since this incident, the combined efforts of all the mentioned govt agencies and the FG had been unable to find the crash/wreckage of the aircraft. Meanwhile, according to "National Assembly in the Press" - a research publication of the Public Relations Unit - http://www.nassnig.org/senate/news_one.php?article=14 , Only two stories in the press in the last weeks of August portrayed the image of the National Assembly NEGATIVELY.
It is about time we start to keep our elected officials accountable to the citizenry whom they represent.
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