Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) was recently marked top safety and security cautious Airport in the East African region by International Civil Aviation Authority .
This comes after Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority, Senior Inspector Mr Salim Msangi made remarks during a workshop revealing achievements the Airport has come close to that have persuaded countries like Angola to follow suit when it comes to aviation security matters.
Mr Msangi explained that International Civil Aviation Authority, a specialised agency of United Nations, conducts inspections at the airports after every five years to establish civil aviation security and that JNIA was inspected in 2015 where stable security results in increase of the number of flights landing at the airports, the number of passengers and cargos.
Mr Msangi said the main goal of TCAA was to enact and supervise safety regulations in the country’s airports, adding that the aviation watchdog is tasked to conduct audit and inspections in all the country’s airports. “The inspection is conducted to establish if an airport has the entire stable infrastructure for passengers’ safety,” he added.
Earlier this year, Emirates flight, which was en route to Mauritius from Dubai, was forced to make an emergency landing at JNIA. The emergency landing at the airport was described by aviation experts that it just occurred after assurance of civil aviation security.
