LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Regulators grounded Air Nigeria for safety checks Wednesday, while the company’s top executive claimed instead that he had stopped flights from the country’s second-largest airline to “reorganize” after its engineers held a sporadic strike.
The halting of Air Nigeria flights — and the confusion surrounding it — offers a worrying portrait about the state of aviation in Africa’s most populous nation after another airline crashed a passenger jet on June 3, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground.
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