Daily Independent
Bristow Helicopters Nigeria Limited, the leading company operating commercial helicopter business in the country, has lamented that it lost about $1million to the menace of bird strikes.
This was made known by the Managing Director of Bristow Helicopters, Capt Akin Oni, briefing journalists on efforts at repositioning the company and the aviation safety conference tagged, “Target Zero,” in Lagos recently.
He added that the menace of bird strikes is one of the company’s biggest challenges, adding that the strikes damaged the airframe of one of its helicopters which very seriously.