The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has released its first report on its investigation activities on last year’s crash of Dana flight 0992 in Lagos, with no conclusion regarding the cause of the incident.
The report contains technical information concerning the flight schedule, altitude of the flight, geographical circumstance of the spot of crash, flight crew and last conversation of the pilots regarding the sudden loss of both engines and failure of throttles.
The same information was made available last year in the preliminary report it issued few days after the crash and made available to a coroner making inquest on the crash in Lagos.
AIB said its investigative activities have included “visual examination of the aircraft wreckage, review of maintenance records and other historical information of the aircraft, documentation of the training and experience of the flight crew, determination the chronology of the flight, review of recorded data, reconstructing the aircraft refueling, and collection of related fuel samples, and interviews of relevant personnel”.
The investigation, AIB indicated, was only in compliance with standard recommendation of the International Civil Aviation Organization [ICAO], which requires it, as ‘State of Occurrence’, to institute the activity of enquiry into air accidents.
The report, according to AIB spokesperson Tunji Oketunbi, was also in fulfillment of a requirement of the International Civil Aviation Organization which mandates that the public must be informed of the progress of an investigation 365 days after an air accident.
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