Bellview Airlines (Nigeria)
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| Bellview | ||
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| IATA B3 |
ICAO BLV |
Callsign BELLVIEW AIRLINES |
| Founded | 1992 | |
| Hubs | Murtala Mohammed International Airport | |
| Focus cities / secondary hubs | Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Port Harcourt International Airport | |
| Frequent flyer program | Premium Club | |
| Member lounge | none | |
| Alliance | none | |
| Fleet size | 7 | |
| Destinations | 15 | |
| Parent company | Bellview Airlines Nig. Ltd. | |
| Headquarters | Lagos, Nigeria | |
| Key people | Tunde Yusuf (Chairman), Kayode Odukoya (CEO) | |
| Website: http://www.flybellviewair.com | ||
Bellview Airlines is an airline based in Lagos, Nigeria. It was established and started operations in 1992, is privately owned and operates scheduled domestic and international charter flights from Lagos.
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[edit] Services
Bellview Airlines operates the following services (at December 2006):
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Abuja, Kano, Lagos and Port Harcourt.
- International scheduled destinations: Abidjan, Accra, Banjul, Conakry, Dakar, Douala, Freetown, Libreville and Monrovia.
[edit] 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. [1]
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.
Bellview resumed flights on October 24, 2005.
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.
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. [3]
[edit] Fleet
The Bellview Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at November 2006):
