Operators of Air Peace Airline has said that a man in his 20s emerged from the bush along the runway of the Murtala Muhammed Airport I (MMAI) and tried to gain access into its aircraft through the wheel-well on Friday. Mr Stanley Olisa, the Corporate Communications Executive of the airline, disclosed this in statement issued […]

Japan will send a warship and patrol planes to protect Japanese ships in the Middle East as the situation in the region, from which it sources nearly 90% of its crude oil imports, remains volatile, a document approved by the cabinet showed on Friday. Under the plan, a helicopter-equipped destroyer and two P-3C patrol planes […]

Thirteen French soldiers fighting Islamist insurgents in Mali have been killed after two helicopters collided in mid-air. There was no survivor in the helicopter crash which happened Monday. The aircraft were reported to have been flying very low and “in total darkness” – making the operation more complex. Reports indicated the incident to be the […]

The Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), on Thursday, held a memorial ceremony for the 165 military officers who died in a plane crash in 1992 at Ejigbo on the outskirts of Lagos. The Nigeria Air Force C-130 plane crashed on Sept. 26, 1992, killing all the passengers and crew members. This is the […]

Federal Government yesterday took delivery of calibration aircraft for the country’s airspace. Taking the delivery on behalf of the government at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, said “ the  King Air 350ii turboprop aircraft cost $8.5million.

 Israeli troops in the Golan Heights fired at an Israeli civilian aircraft on Wednesday night, having misidentified it as a hostile plane which they thought had infiltrated from Syria.

The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, says it plans to increase its modern training aircraft to 14 this year.

Small aircraft crashed into crowd of people upon landing in Germany killing three people including a child.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said its Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE has neutralised scores of Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) at Yuwe in Borno, through successful air strikes.

Senators are headed for a stormy session today, outraged, over the anticipatory approval and payment of $496 million to the United States Government by President Muhammadu Buhari for the purchase of 12 A29 Super Tucano aircraft.

AS part of its, efforts at improving the air transport infrastructure across Africa, the African Import Export Bank, Afreximbank    and the Russian Export Center, REC, Wednesday, began a roadshow in Lagos under a new partnership that would raise the profile of Russian aircraft and helicopters in Africa and enable Nigerian airline operators access financial support and facility to acquire brand new aircraft.

A Nigerian Air Force student pilot escaped death yesterday, when a Diamond 40 Trainer Aircraft he used on a solo mission developed problem mid air in Kaduna State.

Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Monday said it has commenced evacuation of abandoned aircraft at the airside of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA, Lagos.

THE Nigerian Air Force, NAF,  Monday said its remotely piloted aircraft (RPA),last Sunday, successfully destroyed an artillery gun and some gun trucks belonging to the Boko Haram Terrorists in the Sambisa Forest, killing many in the process.

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