Following concerns that social distancing is not being observed on board since the resumption of flights last week amid the coronavirus pandemic, Nigeria’s Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika has said that the nature of the airplane remained so hygienic that social distancing was not necessary.
Sirika, speaking as he embarked on a simulation return flight to the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano at the weekend said, "the airplane is hygienic enough once you have your mask, you are safe to remain seated on your seat and where possible, we will keep the distance". Sirika had gone to the Kano airport to assess the preparation of the airport for the resumption of flights.
He said that ticket fares for boarding a flight were made affordable because of the non-observance of physical distancing in flights.
“Airplanes are designed in such a way that the ambient air at altitudes is clean. It is not contaminated. The air is dropped in the aircraft, pressurized and because of pressurization, the temperature of the air goes up to 200 degrees which is twice boiling water and no bacteria or virus can survive it and it is suddenly cooled to about 2 degrees centigrade and then it is passed to a filter.
“Passing through the filtration system ensures that every single organism is screened and then it is passed to the cabin and once it is passed through the cabin, it comes from the ceiling downwards.
“So, it is not coming from the cockpit to the rear, it is from the ceiling downwards and it drops on the floor and gets circulated.
“With this mechanism in place, everything will be safe provided that we are decontaminating the airplane before we enter and decontaminating after we leave and also cleaning all the possible surfaces that one will touch.” The Minister said.
Share this:
International fight is important to us. We are waiting
ReplyDelete