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  Bellview Airlines (Nigeria) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bellview Airlines is an airline based in Lagos, Nigeria.
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.
The Boeing 737 was on a flight from Lagos to Freetown, Sierra Leone when crew detetected a hydraulic systems failure.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bellview_Airlines_(Nigeria)   (317 words)

  
 The Bellview story - OnlineNigeria.com
Indeed, the airline scored many firsts in the field of aviation in Nigeria and Africa, that when the accident occurred on Saturday evening, many passengers were on queue at the counter of the airline, still booking spaces for their local and international travels.
The airline and her affiliate, Bellview Sierra Leone, have since grown into a sector leader in the country and flagship regional carrier in the West African sub-region, providing services to seven international destinations in Nigeria, Cote D’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, Ghana, Gambia.
He said that the Airlines have continued to maintain a good share of the air transport market in the West African region, especially when it was voted the best airline of the year in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998- four consecutive years-in the country.
nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates?a=5745&z=12   (497 words)

  
 Bellview Airlines (Sierra Leone) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bellview Airlines Ltd. (IATA: B3, ICAO: BVU, and Callsign:) is an airline based in Sierra Leone.
They serve a variety of destinations in West Africa, including Freetown, Sierra Leone, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and Accra, Ghana.
 This article relating to an African airline is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bellview_Airlines_(Sierra_Leone)   (94 words)

  
 NigeriaInvestment.com - Kayode Odukoya
Bellview Airlines is today Nigeria's leading airline, distinguished by unrivalled services provided customers on its flights on local and international routes.
Kayode Odukoya, chief executive officer, Bellview Airlines, is the main brain behind the promotion of the airline which started our as a travelling agency in 1989 an within three years developed into a full blown player in Nigeria's aviation industry.
The airline is also visible in the West Coast of Africa with flights to Cote d' Ivoire; the Gambia; Ghana and Sierra Leone.
www.nigeriainvestment.com /people/Odukoya_kayode.html   (462 words)

  
 The Sun News On-line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The airline was voted the best airline of the year in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998- four consecutive years-in the country.
Bellview is the first airline to operate Airbus A300-600 aircraft in Nigeria after the national carrier and the first privately owned airline to do so in Africa.
Bellview currently operates with a fleet of five B737-200s and has just taken delivery of two wide-body modern aircraft (767-200Ers) in readiness for her intercontinental operations.
www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/features/ceomagazine/2005/oct/10/ceomagazine-10-10-2005-001.htm   (2106 words)

  
 Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leonean police are working to improve the professionalism, capabilities, and training of their modest force, but fall short of American standards in response time, communications, and specialty skills.
Sierra Leone's customs authorities may enforce strict regulations concerning the export of gems and precious minerals, such as diamonds and gold.
Sierra Leone’s judiciary is under-funded and overburdened, and offenders often must endure lengthy pre-trial or pre-hearing delays and detention.
www.travel.state.gov /travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1016.html   (3010 words)

  
 PDP chairman’s wife, 62 others escape death ... in a near Bellview plane crash - OnlineNigeria.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
She condemned the management of the airline for its alleged insensitivity to the plight of the passengers.
Neither the airline’s officials nor their counterparts in the Ministry of Aviation could be reached as at press time to confirm the development.
Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed at Lisa, Ogun State, on October 22, 2005, killing all the 117 people on board.
nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates?a=6485&z=17   (1272 words)

  
 Mr Kayode Odukoya Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer Bellview Airlines in Sierra Leone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bellview is the pioneering Nigerian airline in the International Air Transport Association (l ATA).
Bellview kept an impressive profile with an accident free track record since inception until the crash of October 2005 which the airline has put behind it and is forging forward.
Bellview was voted in 2003 and 2004 African Regional Airline of the year, by the London based African Aviation Magazine.
news.sl /drwebsite/publish/printer_20052006.shtml   (348 words)

  
 Bellview Chief Executive Visits Sierra Leone
Odukoya is the founder of Belleview Airlines Ltd.
These respectable Sierra Leoneans have jointly contributed to the success story of Bellview Sierra Leone and as a result have helped in catapulting the airline to international acclaim.
Bellview among the numerous airlines is the first to operate an Airbus A300-600 in Nigeria and also commenced operations in Brazil, Kenya, Amsterdam and Bombay.
www.visitsierraleone.org /news/news_item.asp?NewsID=464   (312 words)

  
 THISDAYonline
Bellview Airlines has bagged the African Regional Airline of the Year award at a recently held African Aviation awards in Casablanca, Morocco.
Kayode Odukoya, congratulated the airline for making such a positive statement for Sierra Leone and Nigeria's image, and expressed confidence that Bellview would not rest on her oars in making the country and the West African sub-region proud.
According to him: "We are mindful at Bellview that charity begins at home." Bellview Airline, as the first private airline in the country, remains the first and only Nigerian airline in the IATA Clearing House; as well as the first to win an international airline performance award.
www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/04/23/20040423bus06.html   (335 words)

  
 Bellview Boss Jets into Sierra Leone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Odukoya is expected to participate in the Commonwealth’s Sierra Leone Investment Forum which starts today March 27th and runs until Thursday 30th March 2006.
Bellview Airlines Limited is the major investor in Bellview Airlines (Sierra Leone) Limited which latter is a regional airline owned jointly by Sierra-Leonean and Nigerian investors, in the spirit of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS).
Odukoya is expected to make a public appearance wherein he will address the general public and members of the media on Bellview’s operations as well as on their investments in Sierra Leone.
news.sl /drwebsite/publish/printer_20052018.shtml   (177 words)

  
 UK visitors to Sierra Leone finally have a choice of airlines
For years following the rebel war in Sierra Leone, visitors from the United Kingdom were limited to using one airline in order to travel direct to the country.
Bellview Airlines (Sierra Leone) will start flying from the 9th July 2005, with 3 days a week schedule flight from London Heathrow Terminal 2 to Freetown, Lungi airport.
Bellview Airlines currently flies into 13 destinations in 11 countries with 175 weekly flights.
www.pressbox.co.uk /detailed/Business/UK_visitors_to_Sierra_Leone_finally_have_a_choice_of_airlines_31267.html   (391 words)

  
 Bellview Airlines to fly Freetown - London Route
Bellview Airlines will on June 20 make history as the first to commence operations on the intercontinental routes among the eight domestic airlines designated by the Federal Government to fly the nation's flag on the international arena.
The airline which is also a flag carrier in Sierra Leone will on July 2 commence direct flights on the Freetown-London route.
Gbenga Olowo who announced the developments at a dinner hosted to intimate travel agents and the airline's customers about the plans said the choice of Bombay was informed by statistics which put the Indian city as the largest concentration of middle class people totaling about 300 million, adding that the middle class drives any economy.
www.visitsierraleone.org /news/news_item.asp?NewsID=327   (221 words)

  
 Independent Online Edition > Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
But in Sierra Leone it is a sight few people thought they would ever witness again.
Sierra Leone remained a British colony until it won independence in 1961.
He travelled to Sierra Leone in 1942 and was stationed there for most of the war, working for British intelligence.
travel.independent.co.uk /africa/article344624.ece   (1592 words)

  
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He was flying from Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, to Banjul in Gambia when the explosion occurred.
Col Luck's travel agent in Sierra Leone has informed him that his plane was the 737 that crashed.
Bellview has not said whether the 737 was in Banjul before the accident.
www.telegraph.co.uk /core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/07/wplane07.xml&site=5   (332 words)

  
 Getting Here   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Visitors to Sierra Leone can also connect on Air France and KLM using regional Airlines to and from Conakry and Abidjan.
Sierra Leone lies in the same time zone as Europe and only 6 ½ flying hours by direct flight from London and Paris.
Sierra Leone has the third largest natural harbour in the world, and is looking forward to the arrival of Cruise ships
www.cocsl.com /gettinghere.htm   (293 words)

  
 Bellview Airlines (Sierra Leone) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Bellview Airlines (Sierra Leone) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Bellview Airlines (Sierra Leone) contains research on
Bellview Airlines (Sierra Leone), Destinations, Fleet and Airlines of Sierra Leone.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Bellview_Airlines_(Sierra_Leone)   (104 words)

  
 World International and Domestic airlines on the web....
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Airline liability for baggage is limited to $2,500 per person on flights within the United States.
qasim.itgo.com /airlines.htm   (5284 words)

  
 National Tourist Board - Air Travel
Direct flights are available from London by Astraeus Airlines (Gatwick Airport) twice weekly and Bellview Airlines (Heathrow Airport) three times a week.
New airline operations from Europe are also planed for the coming years.
Sierra Leone lies in the same time zone as Europe and only 6 ½ hours flying time by direct flight from London and Paris.
www.welcometosierraleone.org /airtravel.asp   (177 words)

  
 Ghana to probe emergency landing of Nigerian airliner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Femi Awe Gideon, Bellview Country Manager for Ghana, told the Ghana News Agency that the pilot radioed the Accra Traffic Control to report the fault and requested for ground emergency services to enable him to land.
The plane came to a stop in the middle of the runway, closing the airport for 45 minutes during which the passengers were evacuated and the plane towed away.
Three Nigerian-operated planes, including a Bellview aircraft, have crashed in that country in recent weeks, raising concerns of safety among the travelling public.
news.monstersandcritics.com /africa/printer_1070126.php   (186 words)

  
 www.ghanaweb.com: General News of Monday, 19 December 2005
Flight B3 252 scheduled for Freetown, Sierra Leone through Accra was expected to touch down at 11.00 hours but landed 55 minutes later with a burst tyre due to system failure.
Upon landing, the movement of the aircraft was further hampered by a burst tyre so it remained in the middle of the runway, leading to a temporary closure of the airport for 45 minutes during which the passengers were evacuated and the plane towed away.
In the last two months, three Nigerian operated planes, including a Bellview aircraft crashed in that country, raising concerns of safety among the travelling public, not only those on the domestic route but also passengers flying along the West Coast where many of the airlines operated.
www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/printnews.php?ID=96328   (262 words)

  
 News -- EAS pilot aborts flight mid-air
He said although the agreement between the airlines and passengers was private, the International Civil Aviation Organisation rules make provision for such compensation.
Meanwhile, Bellview airlines said it would cooperate fully with the authorities in resolving issues concerning the grounding of its operations.
Habib Mohammed, said the airline shared in the responsibility of air safety and would cooperate with the authorities.
odili.net /news/source/2005/dec/21/423.html   (985 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Current events in Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
President of the Royal Society Robert May warned that the extra aid to help lift Africa out of poverty agreed in July by G8 leaders could be eaten up by global warming unless urgent action is taken.
A Nigerian airliner Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a Boeing 737 aircraft, with 117 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Lagos en route to the capital Abuja.
AIDS activists groups, Act Up-Paris lobby group and the African Essential Drug Network (RAME), call on drugs manufacturing company Roche Holding AG to allow generic companies to make the antiviral drug Tamiflu for Africans, as concerns mount over how countries would deal with a potential flu pandemic stemming from bird flu virus H5N1.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Current_events_in_Africa   (1552 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Reactions Trail Designation of Airlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Media reports yesterday indicated that the Federal Government had designated Bellview Airlines, emerging carrier, Arik Air and Aero Contractors on some of the routes in Europe and the United States of America while Delta and Continental Airlines, two U.S airlines, were equally granted air rights into Nigeria.
Gbenga Olowo also told newmen that the designation of the Nigerian airlines to such routes was an indication that government is beginning to reverse a wrong step taken earlier, that the development was welcome.
Although the thrust of the press briefing is not certain, it may be connected with the latest designation of some airlines on foreign routes and the rising cost of aviation fuel.
allafrica.com /stories/200607270192.html   (396 words)

  
 Chippla's Weblog - Thoughts on Issues: Bellview 737-200 Suffers Hydraulic Failure Over Ghana
However, the Nigerian Vanguard presented a report today which clearly states that some of the affected airlines ignored the ban and continued to use their 737s.
One of the airlines implicated in the report was Bellview.
So, the very fact that a Bellview Boeing 737-200 departed from the city of Lagos for Freetown could be tantamount to manslaughter were any of its airplanes involved in an accident in which someone died.
chippla.blogspot.com /2005/12/bellview-737-200-suffers-hydraulic.html   (375 words)

  
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The idea was to ensure that all member airlines were audited by 2007, when an operational safety audit certificate would become a condition of Iata membership.
Xing said the airline will introduce the Taiwanese pilots to the public in a reception Monday evening on the eve of their service on the carrier's flights.
In addition to Sichuan Airlines, local news reports said Shenzhen Airlines in Guangdong, southern China is also trying to recruit pilots from Taiwan.
www.grangier.fr /news/journal-2005-12-20.txt   (1748 words)

  
 Sierra Leone's briefs. Politics And Economy
Unthinkable atrocities have been committed from 1991 to 1998 by hordes of tugs under the control of irresponsible Sierra Leone's leaders (and their regional allied in surrounding countries) whom only motivation is the control of the diamonds production.
Indeed, diamonds is a calamity for Sierra Leone; a devastating misfortune.
They have resulted in looting by both Liberian army and rebel units of Sierra Leonean villages, according to UN personnel in Sierra Leone.
businessafrica.net /africabiz/countries/sierraleone.php   (894 words)

  
 OSAC - Nigeria Grounds Bellview
A Nigerian airline which operated a plane which crashed in October, killing 117 people, has been grounded.
Right now we are not operating in compliance with the directive of the technical task force set up by the Aviation Minister Babalola Borishade," Bellview spokesman Habib Mohammed told the AFP news agency.
The Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 that touched down in Accra on Monday had been on a flight from Lagos to Freetown in Sierra Leone, with a scheduled stop in Ghana.
www.osac.gov /News/story.cfm?contentID=39995   (307 words)

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