Airworthiness Report On Crashed Helicopter Untrue—NCAA

<h4>Airworthiness Report On Crashed Helicopter Untrue<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority&comma; NCAA&comma; has debunked reports concerning the airworthiness of the helicopter that crashed in Port Harcourt last Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The NCAA said the reports&comma; as published by an online outlet&comma; were wrong and the helicopter that suffered a crash had never been scrapped&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Acting Director-General of the NCAA&comma; Captain Chris Najomo&comma; in a statement&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em><strong>The attention of the Authority has been brought to a report by the Sahara reporters on the airworthiness status of the recently crashed helicopter with registration marks 5N-BQG prior to the crash&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In their report&comma; it was stated that the aircraft was initially registered in the year 2004 as 5N-BGN with Aero Contractors&comma; after which it was deregistered to Canada in the year 2009&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> The report then went on to state that the aircraft registration was cancelled in September 2018 after it was &OpenCurlyQuote;presumably scrapped’&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Their report was concluded with a question of how the helicopter was moved to Nigeria and registered as 5N-BQG before the crash&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Based on our records&comma; the following items are stated here to correct the wrong information published by the Sahara reporters on the subject matter&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is important to state that aircraft can be tracked not only by their registration marks but also by their Manufacturer Serial Number &lpar;MSN&rpar;&period;The 5N-BQG S76C&plus; helicopter has its MSN as 760486&comma; while the 5N-BGN S76C&plus; helicopter has its MSN as 760468&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The S76C&plus; helicopter with registration marks 5N-BGN and MSN&colon;760468 was initially registered at the age of 7 years on July 15&comma; 2004&comma; with Aero Contractors as the operator and Capital Aviation Services B&period;V&period; as the registered owner&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>The registration was re-issued on December 13&comma; 2006&comma; when the ownership of the helicopter changed to RBS Aerospace Limited&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> The S76C&plus; helicopter with registration marks 5N-BGN and MSN&colon;760468 was de-registered by Aero Contractors on February 18&comma; 2009&comma; to Transport Canada&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The S76C&plus; helicopter with registration marks 5N-BQG and MSN&colon;760486 was initially registered at the age of 14 years on the 10th DEC&period;2012 with Nestoil Plc as the registered operator and owner&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> The registration was re-issued on July 13&comma; 2021&comma; as a result of a change of operator to OMNI-BLU Aviation LTD&period; and an ownership change to DANBA Associates LIMITED&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> A further amendment of the registration was done on May 30&comma; 2022&comma; when the ownership changed to EASTWIND AVIATION LOGISTICS SERVICES LIMITED while maintaining OMNI-BLU as the operator&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>The final amendment to the registration was on February 27&comma; 2024&comma; when the operator of the S76C&plus; helicopter with registration marks 5N-BQG and MSN&colon; 760486 was changed to EASTWIND AVIATION LOGISTICS SERVICES LIMITED&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>By this action&comma; EASTWIND AVIATION LOGISTICS SERVICES LIMITED became the registered operator and owner of the helicopter&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Based on the following data from our records&comma; it is clear that Sahara Reporters could not clearly differentiate the records of the recently crashed EASTWIND AVIATION LOGISTICS SERVICES LIMITED S76C&plus; Helicopter with registration mark 5N-BQG and MSN&colon; 760486 and the AERO CONTRACTORS DE-REGISTERED S76C&plus; Helicopter with registration marks 5N-BGN and MSN&colon; 760468&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;