NIMET, AIPB Record Major Milestones

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and the Accident Investigation and Prevention Bureau (AIPB) have recorded various achievements that have enhanced aviation safety and security in Nigeria’s aviation industry in the last two years.

Some of these achievements include the installation of various essential facilities such as the Doppler Weather Radar and the Calibrated Meteorological Instrument used to detect and track hazardous weather systems on real-time basis and guarantees weather data reliability.

Windshear is a major weather hazard that has contributed to many aircraft accidents in the past. By means of LLWAS, the occurrence of  low level windshear can now be detected and early warnings, relayed to pilots via the ATC before takeoff and landing.

A press statement from Yakubu Dati, spokesperson, for Aviation Parastatals, read that, “The existence of these instruments has guaranteed accurate and timely weather forecasts, measurements and observations have met ICAO standard and pilots now obtain accurate and reliable weather information prior to every flight out of any Nigerian airport”t.

In addition to the above achievements, the AIB is now able to download, extract, decode and analyse the aircraft accident data from the CVR and FDR (Black Boxes) thus saving time and money, speeding up the investigation process and upgrading the skills of our aircraft accident investigation.

With the public release of all nine outstanding accident investigation reports from previous reports from previous years, critical safety information in the form of 36 safety recommendations have been pushed out for implementation by the NCAA to aid in further enhancing the safety net.