Asaba Incident: Aircraft’s black box data overwritten after crew flew back to Lagos – NSIB

The NSIB disclosed the development 65 days after the 10 June incident, saying the aircraft’s return to Lagos before investigators arrived resulted in the overwriting of critical flight data that could have helped establish what happened during the wrong-surface landing in Asaba.

By Dickson Omobola Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, NSIB, has disclosed that the flight crew of the private jet that landed on a road in the Ogwashi-Uku area of Delta State overwrote the aircraft’s black boxes. In aviation, the black boxes, comprising the Cockpit Voice Recorder, CVR, and Flight Data Recorder, FDR,

The NSIB has revealed the black box of the private jet that landed on an Asaba highway was overwritten, making investigation difficult. Learn more about th