It was a sober moment as family, friends, colleagues and sympathisers gathered in Lagos on Saturday to bid farewell to the late Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, a Nigerian who died aboard EgyptAir on September 4, 2023 in Cairo.
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The family of late Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, a Nigerian citizen who died aboard a EgyptAir flight on September 4, 2023 in Cairo on her way to London, United Kingdom for
Again, Nigeria has suffered from her continuous image, credibility and reputation challenges at the international level. This time, the incident in focus is more pathetic and leaves a big question mark on the reality of the much touted spirit of “Africanism”, which is simply in this case the display of true love and affection towards fellow African nations. Painfully, Nigerian authorities, on their own, have acted below expectations in the current situation which is the reason the perceived diplomatic breaches and lapses in the matter have passed almost unnoticed. This has always been the case with any issue concerning Nigeria, her nationals and critical international issues relating to the country in foreign lands.
Worried by the failure of the EgyptAir management to respond to enquiries on the death of a Nigerian, Remilekun Toyosi Meshioye, aboard the airline on September 4, 2023, the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has demanded for justice.
The family of the deceased, identified as Meshioye Remilekun Toyosi, is also seeking answers and assistance in repatriating her remains to Nigeria.
The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, gave the details when he spoke at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 news briefing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Thursday
On Friday, Trump slammed a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travellers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries, saying the moves would help protect Americans from terrorist attacks
The committee said in Cairo that the examination of the electronic board components of the plane’s cockpit voice recorder, the second of two black boxes on the aircraft, showed that none of the memory chips was damaged
Experts at the French air accident investigation office will attempt to repair the second black box, which contains sound recordings from the cockpit, on Wednesday, according to the committee.
Airbus shared the signal’s location information with Egyptian officials, which helped narrow the search area to a 5km zone now being scoured by air and sea
EgyptAir Chairman, Safwat Muslim, said the Egyptian investigators tasked the firms, one French and one Italian, with locating the electronic recording devices, presumed to be sitting on the seabed at a depth of 3 kilometres,.
Muslim said the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, known as the black boxes would provide crucial information about the Airbus A320’s final moments
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that so far, only small body parts no bigger than the palm of a hand had been recovered, indicating that an explosion ripped through the plane
Ships and planes scouring the sea north of Alexandria have found body parts, personal belongings and debris from the Airbus 320, but are still trying to locate the black box recorders that could shed light on the cause of Thursday’s crash
The BEA spokeswoman said smoke was detected in a forward lavatory, according to the information sent via ACARS, or Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, which transmits short condition updates to ground stations by radio or via satellite
Buhari, in a telephone conversation with Al-Sisi, also commiserated with the people of Egypt on the crash, which occurred in the early hours of Thursday
In a series of tweets on its official Twitter handle on Thursday evening, EgyptAir said: “EGYPTAIR resource stated that the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation has just received an official letter from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that confirms the finding of wreckage of the missing aircraft No. MS 804 near Karpathos Island
British, Belgium, Kuwaiti, Saudi, Sudanese, Chadian, Portuguese, Algerian and Canadian nationals were all one each.
The airline expressed concern over unsubstantiated information being published by the media
The flight, MS804, was operating from Paris in France to Cairo, Egypt when it disappeared from radar
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said EgyptAir would comply with the request.
EgyptAir operates five flights each week to New York.