The Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, has explained that it will release names of those involved in the ill-fated Bristow helicopter crash in Lagos, as soon as the airline involved has contacted the families of the victims.
The agency revealed on Thursday that this is in line with international aviation practice before making the names public, as reports have it that the black box and the cockpit voice recorders have not been recovered from the crash site.
Some bodies of the helicopter crash after being retrieved by a rescue team.
The commissioner of the AIB, Dr Felix Abali, told aviation reporters on Thursday that the Bureau will only make the names public when the airline has finished contacting families of the victims, adding that he is personally in touch with the airline and will make the names public immediately he gets the nod from the airline.
Vanguard quoted Abali to have said: “We do have the copy of the manifest but there are protocol which we must go through before releasing it.
“The families must be briefed first. It is the responsibility of the airlines to release the manifest, they have to contact the families first before they release it to the public.”
Julius Berger, a foremost construction company is still investigating the site of crash to get the blackbox and cockpit voice recorders, items which will aid quick investigation of the crash.
“We have not recovered the black boxes yet that is the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight Date Recorder (FDR) so Julius Berger is going there tomorrow to continue the search,” Abali added.
Six people reportedly lost their lives as the helicopter plunged into Lagos Lagoon on Wednesday while reports emerged yesterday that two more bodies were discovered from the site of the crash.
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