{"id":122208,"date":"2025-09-12T17:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=122208"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:07:37","slug":"air-peace-pilots-test-positive-for-drugs-alcohol-nsib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/air-peace-pilots-test-positive-for-drugs-alcohol-nsib\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Peace Pilots Test Positive for Drugs, Alcohol \u2014 NSIB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Lizzy Chirkpi<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has indicted an Air Peace pilot, co-pilot, and a cabin crew member after toxicological tests confirmed the presence of alcohol and hard drugs in their systems.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The revelation followed an incident involving an Air Peace Boeing 737 aircraft, which veered off the runway at the Port Harcourt International Airport on July 13, 2025.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the NSIB\u2019s preliminary report, signed by the Director of Public Affairs and Family Assistance, Mrs Bimbo Olawumi Oladeji, and released on Friday, the intoxication of crew members has now been added to the list of factors responsible for runway incursions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe aircraft, operating as a scheduled domestic flight from Lagos to Port Harcourt with 103 persons on board, landed long on Runway 21 after an unstabilised final approach. The aircraft touched down 2,264 metres from the runway threshold and came to a final stop 209 metres into the clearway. All passengers and crew disembarked safely, and no injuries were reported,\u201d the NSIB said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bureau explained that the aircraft landed well beyond the recommended touchdown zone after an unstable approach, before finally coming to rest in the clearway. Though no lives were lost, the development raised urgent safety concerns within the aviation sector.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Toxicological tests conducted on the crew at the Rivers State Hospital Management Department of Medical Laboratory in Port Harcourt revealed that the captain and first officer tested positive for Ethyl Glucuronide, a marker for recent alcohol consumption, while a cabin crew member tested positive for Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive compound in cannabis.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cInitial toxicological tests conducted on the flight crew revealed positive results for certain substances, including indicators of alcohol consumption. A cabin crew member also tested positive for THC, the psychoactive component in cannabis. These results are being reviewed under the human performance and safety management components of the investigation,\u201d the bureau noted.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NSIB added that it had issued immediate safety recommendations to Air Peace, directing the airline to strengthen crew resource management training, particularly in handling unstabilised approaches and go-around decisions, as well as reinforce internal monitoring procedures to ensure crew fitness-for-duty before flight dispatch.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lizzy Chirkpi The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has indicted an Air Peace pilot, co-pilot, and a cabin crew member after toxicological tests confirmed the presence of alcohol and&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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