Senate fails to quiz Oduah on N255m car scandal - Rejects Crash Report

The Senate on Tuesday rejected the explanation of the Minister of Aviation,  Ms. Stella Oduah, on the ill-fated crash involving a 23-year – old Propeller aeroplane belonging to the Associated Airlines on October 3.

The upper legislative house asked the minister to re-submit a detailed presentation on the incident.

Oduah, who appeared before the senate committee on aviation in company with heads of the various agencies under her ministry had limited her presentation to the information retrieved from the black box of the aircraft.
The proceeding was however a dissapointment to many Nigerians who had expected that with the minister’s appearance before the Senate on Tuesday, she would be quizzed on the two BMW bulletproof cars purchased for her by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority at a cost of N255m.

Oduah, who refused to talk to journalists after the exercise,  had explained that the Accident Investigations Bureau began investigation on the data retrieved form the black box in the airport’s  laboratory.

She also showed a two-minute video clips of the  conversations between the two pilots,  adding that both engines of the aircrafts were faulty and should not have flown.

The minister said the speed of the plane was not enough for the engine to take off and that the pilot ignored the cco-pilot’s warning against flying the plane.

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She said, “As minister of aviation the fact that we got preliminary report in our laboratory without waiting for the final report, showed that we have put in place preventive measures.”