Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority attributes 30% accidents to runway incursion

The Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Dr. Harold Demuren has said that more than 30 percent of accidents in the aviation industry are as a result of runway incursion or excursion and that country need to look at ways of reducing accidents in the continent to the barest minimum.

Demuren, in his welcome address at the NCAA: Runway safety and pavement maintenance seminar decried the rate of runway incursion was increasingly becoming a problem saying that the seminar was timely and apt.

Demuren said: The conference is all about runway excursion and incursion. More than 30 percent of all accidents that occur in aviation, occur in the runway either it is runway incursion or excursion.

Excursion is when you have a normal aircraft that veers from the runway or overshoots the runway causing fatalities and runway incursion you all know that is when animals and unauthorized people are crossing our runway and causing threats.

And this can cause a major fatality, imagine a 747 with 500 people, sometimes it can be due to runway contamination because of rain, that is what we are having this discussion today. The NCAA helmsman also said that the seminar was also aimed at discovering new techniques to solve the problem.

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