Global Aviation aircraft did not go missing in Nigeria’s airspace – NAMA

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) said on Tuesday that the four-seater light aircraft that allegedly got “missing” was not in the country’s airspace.

Mr Ibrahim Abdulsalam, the Managing Director of NAMA, told newsmen in Lagos that the incident was not within the jurisdiction of the agency.

He noted that the aircraft had been handed over to the Cameroon airspace authority before the incident occurred within their airspace.

“It did not occur within the Nigerian airspace, so there is nothing we can do about it. We have handed over the aircraft to the Cameroon airspace,” he explained.

The four-seater plane was flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon when it allegedly disappeared.

It took off from Kano airport at about 6 p.m. on Monday (June 23) en route Libreville in Gabon. The aircraft was scheduled to arrive at 11 p.m. same day, after a stop-over in Douala, Cameroon.

However, the station said that the plane, with only the American pilot on board, did not make it to Douala.

It said the last contact the plane had with the control tower took place in Mongo, which is two hours flight from the Cameroonian economic capital.

Report says that search and rescue operations led by Cameroon’s civil aviation authorities have not yielded any positive results.

The plane is owned by the U.S. company Global Aviation.

NAN