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Nigerian officials responsible for the purchase of Falcon 7X aircraft risk to be sanctioned?
Abuja, Nigeria - Among the copies of this model grounded by EASA also the Nigerian presidential one bought about two months ago

On May 26, EASA, European Aviation Safety Agency, issued an emergency airworthiness directive to order the grounding of all the Falcon 7X executive jets in the world, for a total of 112 aircraft landed. This decision was taken as a precautionary measure after an aircraft of this model, flying between Europe and Malaysia, had experienced an uncontrolled pitch trim runaway during descent (see AVIONEWS)....
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1130699
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency