Nigeria Airways

Lagos airport

Nigeria Airways was an airline founded on October 1, 1958, state of the African Republic of Nigeria. In September 2004, she went over (to the cessation of 2012 Air Nigeria ) in Virgin Nigeria Airways.

History

Nigeria Airways was one of the oldest airlines in the African continent. Older airlines are Egypt Air (1932) and Tunisair (1948 ). Nigeria Airways ( until 1971 still called Nigeria WAAC ) was founded in 1946 from the West African Airways Corporation (WACC ), which had built up in the former British colonies in West Africa, a route network.

In 1961 the airline was nationalized in 1963 and Fokker were put into service F-27 -200. In September 1969, a long-haul aircraft, a Vickers VC10 (Type 1101) was supported by the British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) assumed that when landing on Lagos because of the low altitude grazed several trees on November 20, 1969, crash in which all 87 occupants lost their lives.

In May 1971, the first Boeing was for domestic flights 707 and put into service in 1974, the Fokker F-28. On 14 October 1976, the use of the McDonnell Douglas DC -10-30 followed.

On June 5, 1984, the airline made ​​headlines by kidnapping attempt of Umaru Dikko in London by the Nigerian secret service, attended by the Group was Captain Bernard Bamfa, which was used by the Military Council as Head of the Nigeria Airways involved.

As of 1988, the company became the first time in financial difficulty and the route network had to be reduced. One reason for this was also the abolition of the monopoly on the market and thus the admission other airlines for domestic flights. 1997, said the British Civil Aviation Authority safety reasons the use of British airspace. Nigeria banned then all flights of British Airways in their territory.

In 1998, two Airbus A310 -200, a Boeing 707- 320C, six Boeing 737- 200A and a McDonnell Douglas DC -10-30 used. 2000 advised the International Finance Corporation (IFC ) of the World Bank, the Nigerian government in the privatization of state-owned airline.

Nigeria Airways in 2003 was hopelessly over-indebted and was liquidiert.Im October 2004 admitted the police force, the building of the defunct airline, which occupied the employees to obtain payment of outstanding wages and pensions. The former employees called later to pay outstanding wages and pension payments by the successor organization to Virgin Nigeria Airways. On 28 September 2004, the airline was about 51 percent of institutional investors from Nigeria and 49 percent of Virgin Atlantic Airways, a subsidiary of the Virgin Group, acquired and flew June 28, 2005 under the name Virgin Nigeria Airways and from September 17, 2009 under Nigerian Eagle Airlines .. reasons for the poor financial situation were probably corruption and the use of too many employees per flight. On April 3, 2006, took the Arik Air Founded in 2004, the facilities and the infrastructure of the liquidated Nigeria Airways.

Destinations

Domestically airports were flown in Lagos, Ibadan, Benin City, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Calabar, Kaduna, Kano, Jos, Sokoto, Maiduguri and Yola.

International Numerous cities were served, including Frankfurt ( Main), Banjul and Cotonou.

Accidents and kidnappings

  • On April 23, 1967, a Fokker F-27 is hijacked on a domestic flight of five men to Enugu.
  • November 20, 1969 crash of a Vickers VC10 about 13 kilometers from Lagos. All 87 passengers die.
  • On March 1, 1978 crashed a Fokker F-28 -1000 Kano, Nigeria during the landing approach with a jet of the Nigerian Air Force. All five crew members, 11 passengers and the two pilots of the fighter jets died.
  • On 28 November 1983 crashed a Fokker F -28- 2000 Enugu, Nigeria three kilometers short of runway in the fog off and the engine caught fire. Two of the six crew members and 51 of the 66 passengers died.
  • January 10, 1987 on rolled a DC-10 (Mark 5N -ANR ) in a training flight the runway in Ilorin and burned out.
  • On July 11, 1991 Nigeria Airways flight crashed in 2120 in Jeddah from. The Douglas DC-8 had been leased by the Nationair Canada. All 261 people on board were killed.
  • On 25 October 1993, four men hijacked an Airbus A310 on the way to Frankfurt am Main. At a stopover in Niamey, the kidnappers left free 125 passengers. On October 26, the aircraft was stormed, a crew member died, the kidnappers were arrested.
  • November 13, 1995, a Boeing 737-200 in Kaduna, Nigeria from the landing runway and caught fire. Nine of the 129 passengers died.
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