Air Peace Suffers Major Flight Disruptions Over Bird Strikes On Two Aircraft
Barely two weeks after an Air Peace plane narrowly escaped accident close to Abuja airport due to a bird strike, the airline on Friday said it has grounded two of its aircraft over similar incident.
A statement signed by the management of the airline said the development has resulted in major disruptions of flights already scheduled by Air Peace.
The statement sighted by Ibom Focus read : “Flight disruptions : Bird strikes.
” We hereby notify the flying public that due to bird strikes on two of our operating aircraft today, several flights across our network will be disrupted.
“The affected aircraft are currently grounded but arrangements have been made made to salvage the operations. We deeply empathise with the passengers whose flights have been impacted by this development.
” Air Peace remains committed to the adherence of established safety standards.”
Ibom Focus reports that Air Peace had on 8 April suffered bird strike on its Asaba-Abuja, resulting in emergency landing.
The airline had said : “This is to inform the flying public and our esteemed customers that our Asaba-Abuja flight- P47866- had a bird strike upon landing in Abuja today, Saturday, April 8, 2023.
“The aircraft, with Registration Number ES-SAZ, landed safely and passengers disembarked normally.
“While we deeply empathise with passengers whose flights have been consequently affected by this unforeseen development, arrangement was made for another aircraft to operate Abuja- Asaba, Asaba-Lagos and other flights on that rotation.
” Be assured of our strict compliance with established safety
standards.
