{"id":233858,"date":"2025-08-06T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/ncaa-suspends-two-valuejet-pilots-over-safety-breach-channels-television\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:28:58","slug":"ncaa-suspends-two-valuejet-pilots-over-safety-breach-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/ncaa-suspends-two-valuejet-pilots-over-safety-breach-channels-television\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Suspends Two ValueJet Pilots Over Safety Breach \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NCAA Suspends Two ValueJet Pilots Over Safety Breach \u2022 Channels Television<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended two ValueJet pilots following a serious breach of aviation safety protocols at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Michael Achimugu, the NCAA said preliminary findings revealed that on Tuesday, the pilot commenced departure procedures from the designated bay without obtaining the mandatory pre-departure clearance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Describing the incident as a grave violation, the NCAA said it had taken immediate enforcement action by suspending the licences of the pilot, Captain Oluranti Ogoyi, and the co-pilot, First Officer Ivan Oloba, with immediate effect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) confirms that it has received reports concerning a serious breach of aviation safety protocols by a ValueJet pilot at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja (Domestic Terminal) on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThis reckless action endangered the safety of ground personnel and other airport users, contravening established civil aviation regulations and international safety standards,\u201d the agency stated.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">READ ALSO:<\/span><\/strong> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NCAA Approves Commencement Of Enugu Air<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the NCAA, preliminary information showed that the pilot commenced departure procedures from the designated bay \u201cwithout adhering to the mandatory pre-departure clearance protocols\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe NCAA views this incident with utmost seriousness. Consequently, the Authority has taken immediate enforcement action by suspending the licences of the pilot, Captain Oluranti Ogoyi, and the co-pilot, First Officer Ivan Oloba, with immediate effect,\u201d it announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It further stated that the suspension would remain in effect pending the outcome of a full investigation into the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SAFETY BREACH: NCAA SUSPENDS VALUEJET PILOTS<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) confirms that it has received reports concerning a serious breach of aviation safety protocols by a ValueJet pilot at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja (Domestic Terminal) on\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCIk4ynDc1\">pic.twitter.com\/XCIk4ynDc1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NigeriaCAA (@NigeriaCAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NigeriaCAA\/status\/1952841630765199709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>NCAA,ValueJet<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/08\/06\/ncaa-suspends-two-valuejet-pilots-over-safety-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCAA Suspends Two ValueJet Pilots Over Safety Breach \u2022 Channels Television \u00a0 The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended two ValueJet pilots following a serious breach of aviation safety protocols at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. In a statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Michael Achimugu, the NCAA said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[173],"tags":[1312,1313],"class_list":["post-233858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ncaa","tag-valuejet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}