The Federal Government has banned the use of Boeing 737 Max 8 by any airline operator in the Nigeria airspace.
This follows last Sunday’s clash of the Ethiopian Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane few minutes after take-off in Addis Ababa, killing all the one hundred and fifty-seven people onboard including two Nigerians.
Briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council, meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the Minister of State for Aviation Senator Hadi Sirika, said that such plane would not be allowed into Nigeria until the cause of the plane crash is determined.
According to him, Regarding Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9, that has been in the news recently there is no cause for alarm as there is no operator in Nigeria that is using such type of airplane.
He stated that the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, whose mandate it is to issue advisory, has already said that nobody should fly into Nigeria or out of Nigeria using Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9, pending the determination of the actual cause of the crash in Ethiopia and also pending the outcome of the response of the manufacturer, which is Messers Boeing.
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