The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has lifted the suspension placed on the Operation of United Nigeria Airlines. The agency, in a letter signed by its director of operations, licensing, and training disclosed that the suspension has been lifted and that the incident was due to a lack of adequate liaison between the lessor's OCC and the lessee's OCC.
NCAA, in a statement dated December 1, 2023, disclosed that the investigation revealed that the cockpit crew and the cabin crew did not hold a preflight briefing before embarking on the flight and that the OCC flight monitoring of the United Airlines does not monitor the aircraft in the company’s Operation Specifications Part G (Wet Lease Aircraft) as well as nonadherence to approved flight ATC flight plan.
According to the statement, the NCAA subsequently recommended that the approved flight programs be sent to the lessor, and the necessary briefings should be conducted with a dispatcher of the lessee in attendance.
Other recommendations are that both cockpit and cabin crew should hold appropriate briefings before flight; flight following procedures should be strictly adhered to by both the lessor and lessee’s OCC and Flight Crew and all copies of filed flight plans should be handed to the cockpit crew via the lessee’s OCC.