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An Unfortunate Anniversary

Steve Scott

Monday, November 6th, 2006

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A Deadly Event "Crashes" A Safety Celebration When he was in office during the early 1960s, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was asked by a journalist to name the biggest threat to his government. He famously answered: "Events, dear boy. Events." Indeed, it seems that recent aviation events have flummoxed government officials in Nigeria. On Oct. 23, marking the first anniversary of the Bellview airlines Flt. 210 B737 crash, Nigerian President Obasanjo declared open a lavish 320M naira (US$2.5M) memorial…

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