Amid efforts to enhance aviation security within the nation, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has commissioned the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority’s (NCAA) Flight Information Centre (FDC).
The minister, through the commissioning, defined that the centre would assist enhance flight monitoring patterns, human efforts, and mechanical information, in addition to supply recommendation on the right way to enhance the sector and higher regulate it.
Whereas stressing that the ability speaks to one among their five-point agendas, which focuses on security enchancment within the aviation sector, he stated the ministry is concentrating on enhancing security inside the sector, in addition to the ranking by the Worldwide Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
In his remarks on the occasion, the Appearing Director-Normal, Civil Aviation, Capt. Chris Najomo defined that Annex 19 to the Conference on Worldwide Civil Aviation mandates all states to ascertain security information assortment and processing techniques (SDCPS) to seize, retailer, mixture, and allow the evaluation of security information and security data. It is a hallmark of an efficient State Security Programme (SSP).
He stated that past the fee financial savings and effectivity advantages the Authority would acquire, the ability would assist scale back the “probability of pricey accidents and incidents; assist the implementation of risk-based oversight by environment friendly allocation of sources to areas of upper threat; and align NCAA with world greatest practices, boosting worldwide confidence in Nigerian aviation security requirements.”
Capt. Najomo additionally stated that the NCAA entered into collaboration with APS Aerospace Company, which possesses greater than 100 years of mixed expertise in Flight Information and Cockpit/ATC Audio Evaluation.
Another key advantages he listed embrace: enhanced security oversight, proactively detecting potential security dangers, enabling data-driven decision-making to forestall severe incidents and accidents, and providing essential insights into flight occasions resulting in incidents. It additionally improves the standard and velocity of incident investigations.
