RUNWAY EXCURSION: Indiscriminate construction of structures endangering airport safety, experts warn
” It also urged the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, to provide a suitable location for a Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, control tower to ensure an unrestricted view of all movement areas at the airport.
Meanwhile, based on the finding, experts argue that airport infrastructure should never obstruct the visibility of air traffic controllers, whose ability to maintain an unobstructed view of runways, taxiways and other movement areas is crucial to the safe management of aircraft operations.
For instance, the siting of the new terminal at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, was said to have obstructed part of the control tower’s field of view.
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