Its another sad day for the country.I oftentimes wonder whether these sad times will ever end.Will we have to live with preventable calamities till Christ comes?If its not a sad day for democracy, it will be a sad day for journalism, or for free speech, or for our sports( this is usually after our team loses due to haphazard preparations),or for the judiciary (this is becoming frequent these days)or for our aviation industry.I could go on.... A close look at all the sad days shows that they are simply avoidable. If only those that are meant to do their jobs simply do just that...their jobs.Airbus and the European avaition industry had to phase out the Concorde just because of one crash.The American immigration system had to undergo strident changes just because of one terrorist attack.Prime Ministers and Presidents had had to resign just because of a slight mistake that many a Nigerian would gleefully shout at his rooftop "its not my fault".If an airline keeps on killing people via crashes, i say let it be grounded until it puts its acts right.If we have to kill the indigenious aviation industry because its a demand that they will run on new planes, then i say let us kill it.
How many places in the world do planes crash because they were struck by lightening? How many? Na our weather bad pass? What about the English, Chinese and South Asia weather patterns? Do we have tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones and what have you here? Sometimes i just kneel down and thank God that we dont because had it been we had these system, virtually all our tragedies would be ascribed to them.Sometime ago,grieving mothers were bruatlly molested on the streets of Lagos for protesting about the incessant crashes.Its just as if they were Prophets...Prophets of Doom.This is one crash too many.I am tired in the heart and my heart really goes out to the families of the victims.I cant even think of the fact that the late Sultan was coming from an Education parley called by Baba.He died for our good!Sunday’s crash came barely 42 days after a military aircraft on its way to Obudu, Cross River State had crashed in Benue State, killing 13 military topshots, including 10 Army generals. It is Nigeria’s fourth fatal crash in barely 12 months since Bellview crash of October 22, 2005 in which 117 passengers and crew lost their lives. On December, 10 last year, a Sosoliso flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt crashed, killing 108 persons.
Let those that have the responsibility to act, act.And fast too!Enough of these excuses! Enough of these cutting corners! Enough of these sad days!
5 comments:
alekfkNigeria anounced a week of mourning due to the crash..
Nowhere did they announce any attempt to fix the problem..
Wrong thinking is the real problem.. Not the aircraft..
It's a sad loss. Instead of fixing it as Anonymous said, the gorillas are mourning. What the heck has mourning got to do with revamping the aviation industry?
I wonder Azuka...i wonder.They just deployed the Minister of Avaition to the Culture Minstry.As if that would even solve the problem.Well, wetin we fit do?This is Nigeria.We are still thinkin the wrong way...
We need serious rejuvenation in Nigeria. Only when there is proper regulation not only of the Airline Industry but also other Industries in Nigeria and upright adherence to the set reuglations will there be a turn around in the economy.
Instead of just deploying Borishade, Emphasis should be placed on the age and state of aircrafts used in Nigeria. I fell Bellview from Lagos to Heathrow in July and there was a stop in Freetown. On landing in Freetown, the airline's wheels shook so much and made so much noise that we all in the plane were scared. i even though maybe the runway at Freetown was made of gravel and wasnt properly tarred or full of potholes. Alas on landing in Heathrow, the same problem occurred again. Serious Wobbling of the tires as if the aircraft had landed on gravel. The passengers even clapped for the pilot for landing safely. In my mind, I was like NEVER AGAIN will I fly BELLVIEW cos in all my years of flying BA and VIRGIN, the aircrafts have never wobbled that much on landing. Once we stop accepting cast-off aircrafts that are no longer in use in EUROPE & AMERICA, it will be well with Nigeria.
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Somebody complained about this particular"shking of wheels" in Ghana sometime ago? Is that a new trend of aircraft malfunction? The problem is also with we Nigerians..we applaud mediocrity...Garbage In, Garbage Out!
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