Aero ladder saga: Airline blaims Bauchi Airport manager
Acting Managing Director/Accountable Manager,
Aero Contractors Airline, Captain Russell Lee Foon has said
that the airline was forced to use a ladder to disembark its
passengers on flight 5N-BLG, a Boeing 737-500 from Abuja
to Bauchi because the Bauchi Airport manager failed to
provide the air stairs needed to disembark and board
passengers.
The airline explained that due to the absence of ground
handling companies at the Bauchi airport, who were
supposed to provide gangway equipment to disembark the
passengers, it had to improvise.
Foon said this against the backdrop investigation into the
use of unauthorized equipment by Aero Contractors Airlines
charter flight to Bauchi Airport last weekend.
The Aero Contractors official told newsmen that; “On
Thursday 17th November 2015, a charter was booked and
confirmed from Abuja to Bauchi on a Boeing 737 -500 series
aircraft. The charter was booked by a group of young
people, part of a wedding party, attending this important
event in Bauchi.”