**Akure Airport does not have airfield lighting for Night flights.
**Tambuwal informed NAMA when his aircraft arrived, in Akure and his pilot filed his flight plan and the manifest of the flight.
**Amaechi's flight neither filed a flight plan nor declared a manifest.
**after late Gov Yakowa and Gen. Azazi crash, NAMA issued a notice that private jet owners must declare a manifest before their aircraft would be cleared to fly.
**It took Amaechi's pilot 20 minutes to file the plan and manifest not 2 hours as claimed.
"Akure Airport closes at sunset because it is a daylight airport," he said, adding that when Tambuwal's aircraft arrived, he called NAMA headquarters and informed them he was in Akure for a burial and that his flight would leave by sunset.
"In accordance with regulation, his pilot filed his flight plan and the manifest of the flight. But Amaechi's flight neither filed a flight plan nor declared a manifest. They arrived at about 3.30pm, after attending another burial in Owerri."
Atobatele said that after the helicopter crash in Bayelsa State that killed Mr. Patrick Yakowa, who was Kaduna State governor, and former National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi, NAMA issued a notice that private jet owners are now required to declare a manifest before their aircraft would be cleared to fly. "It took Amaechi's pilot 20 minutes to file the plan and manifest," he said.
"So he failed to follow operational procedure on safety and security. It is a standard procedure across the world. The argument about being delayed for two hours is not true because the aircraft must have left the airport before 7.00pm because Akure does not have airfield lighting." NAMA.
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