{"id":234697,"date":"2025-08-19T17:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/passengers-must-switch-off-phones-during-flights-ncaa-channels-television\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:25:21","slug":"passengers-must-switch-off-phones-during-flights-ncaa-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/passengers-must-switch-off-phones-during-flights-ncaa-channels-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers Must Switch Off Phones During Flights \u2014 NCAA\u00a0 \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers Must Switch Off Phones During Flights \u2014 NCAA\u00a0 \u2022 Channels Television<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Following recent unpalatable airport incidents, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has mandated that all passengers must switch off their phones during civil flights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, NCAA Director General, Chris Najomo, said all phones must be switched off during the critical aspects of flight takeoff and landing in all airports in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The directive by the civil aviation regulator followed a recent controversial brawl that involved a passenger, Comfort Emmanson, and an Ibom Air flight attendant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_949884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-949884\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-949884\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/emmanson-comfort.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/emmanson-comfort-300x162.jpg 300w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/emmanson-comfort.jpg\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-949884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/emmanson-comfort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/emmanson-comfort.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/emmanson-comfort-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-949884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The incident has continued to generate debates in Nigeria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Ibom Air Hostess Came For Trouble With Emmanson, Says Eyewitness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NCAA boss said this would further put a stop to different rules by airlines, which have caused some sort of confusion among passengers of late.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a takeaway and to avoid ambiguity and confusion, all mobile phones and other portable electric devices should be switched off during the critical stage of flight on all Nigerian airlines. Switch off. Nothing like flight mode any longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerian air operators are therefore required to amend their operators\u2019 manuals to reflect this requirement and submit to the NCAA for approval,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain alert to future reviews of this requirement as aircraft technological enhancement improves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt remains the responsibility of the crew to communicate this requirement to the passengers and the responsibility of the passenger to comply with crew instructions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(FAAN),Comfort Emmanson,Ibom Air,NCAA<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/08\/19\/just-in-passengers-must-switch-off-phones-during-flights-ncaa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers Must Switch Off Phones During Flights \u2014 NCAA\u00a0 \u2022 Channels Television \u00a0 Following recent unpalatable airport incidents, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has mandated that all passengers must switch off their phones during civil flights. At a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, NCAA Director General, Chris Najomo, said all phones must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[173],"tags":[1449,1674,1450,1312],"class_list":["post-234697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-comfort-emmanson","tag-faan","tag-ibom-air","tag-ncaa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234697","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=234697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}