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Bellview Airlines is an airline headquartered in the Bellview Plaza in
Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria.[1] It is
privately owned and operates domestic, regional and international
scheduled passenger services. Its main base is Murtala Mohammed International Airport,
Lagos[2].
History
Bellview Travels Limited, a Lagos based travel agency
metarmorphosed into Bellview Airlines in [1992] after it embarked
on executive charter operations with a Yakovlev [Yak-40]. In 1993
it began scheduled domestic passenger services using a leased Douglas DC-9-30. An affiliate
company, Bellview Airlines (Sierra
Leone) was established in 1995, but has since been merged back
into the parent company. It has 308 employees[2].
The Nigerian government set a deadline of April 30, 2007, for
all airlines operating in the country to re-capitalise or be
grounded, in an effort to ensure better services and safety. The
airline satisfied the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)’s
criteria in terms of re-capitalisation and was re-registered for
operation.[3]
In October 2009 Bellview Airlines suspended all operations
following the suspension of its London Heathrow services. Bellview
Airlines does have plans to restore services after 18th December
2009.[4]
Destinations
All scheduled flights are suspended and the airline is grounded
by the NCAA.
Bellview Airlines operated the following services (at July
2009):
Africa
Europe
Incidents and accidents
- On October 22, 2005, Bellview Airlines Flight
210, a Boeing 737
aircraft with 117 people on board, crashed shortly after taking off
from Lagos en route to the
Nigerian capital Abuja. Early
reports from Oyo state
government officials claimed that at least half of those on board
survived the crash, but later retracted that statement saying that
that “the latest reports coming to us say that all the people on
the plane died.” Confusion at the crash site was given as a cause
for the mistaken figure. CNN reports that poor weather may have
contributed to the crash. The crash inquiry is being aided by
officials from Boeing and the
United States National
Transportation Safety Board. The flight
data recorders have not yet been recovered, though pieces of
their casing have been found. Angus Ozoka, a Nigerian official
leading the crash investigation, said he believes the recorders
were destroyed in the impact. Bellview resumed flights on October
24, 2005.[5]
- On December 19, 2005, a Bellview flight made an emergency
landing at Kotoka International
Airport in Accra, Ghana. The Boeing 737 was on a flight from Lagos to Freetown, Sierra Leone, when crew
detetected a hydraulic systems failure. The following day, Nigerian
authorities ordered all Bellview flights grounded and revoked
Bellview's license. [2] An aviation task
force changed the revocation to a suspension on December 22, 2005,
giving Bellview the possibility of operating again once their
equipment and procedures pass task force inspection. [6].
Bellview has since been re-authorized and resumed flight
operations.
Fleet
Bellview Airlines Boeing 767-200ER
The Bellview Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft
(at March 2009):
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