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Captain Mahmood, who previously worked at Skypower Express Airways joined Arik Air in 2007 as a flight officer and held the positions of Chief Pilot/Deputy Fleet Manager, Airbus A330; MNPS Training Captain; and Fleet Manager, Canadian Regional Jet (CRJ) 900. He was also at a time the Line Training Captain and Member, IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) for Arik Air Flight Operations. He trained at Aviation Atlanta Peach Tree Airport, Atlanta Georgia for his Airline Transport Pilot License (ATP...

Just in: Aero Contractors appoints Abdullahi Mahmood as new CEO On Kindly Share This Story: Nigeria’s leading domestic airline, Aero Contractors has named Captain Abdullahi Zubair Mahmood as its new Chief Executive Officer. Captain Mahmood, who was formerly Chief Pilot, Arik Air Limited, takes over from Captain Ado Sanusi who would later head a new airline, NG Eagle, which is in the process to secure its Air Operating Certificate (AOC) from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). Capta...

Pilot suicide. yes, it does affect one. i remember when concord crashed. i was in between simulator duty with british airways at the time and we were unable to continue our simulator. a pair of us turned around to the training captain and said, im sorry, we cant concentrate and we need to stop and do it another day and that is, in fact, what happened. we are not alone in that. of course. but, you know, with time, we will move on. and accidents happen periodically. but rarely. and this particular...

And boeing 777 training captain, ross aymer. what are pilots supposed to do in an emergency? >> good evening, judge. we are trained -- pilots are trained from day one obviously to handle an emergency. every six months we go back to the training centers into the simulators and they throw anything they can find at us, try to get us to remember all the procedures, all the emergency things that we are taught. so theyre trained -- every airline pilot is trained and trained and trained to handle every...

Ahmad shah. hes 53 years old, lives in gated community outside kuala lumpur, 18,000-plus flying hours. joining the airline in 1991. married. three children. one grandchild. supervised some of the pilot planning for malaysia airlines. lets talk about him then well talk about the co-pilot. >> extremely experienced. he was a training captain. he was put with the co-pilot that were going to talk about because the co-pilot was very inexperienced on the 777. this is a man, according to our reporter, b...

Immediate. he was in the process of transferring to the boeing 727, and he lives with his parents and siblings, and is that telling you anything? >> no, it is normal. people of culture doley later so a 27-year-old living at a home is strictly irrelevant. what it does tell me, because i know the makeup of the crew that would have been on the flight. there would have been, and that cap pain was an extremely experien experienced captain. why? because the first officer was inexperienced on the 777. ...

That was 2008. this plane was 11 or 12 years old and presumably those problems had been fixed. a problem with frozen fuel injection into the rolls royce engine in heathrow and reported that the wing tip had been repaired. from a physical structure position, this plane is as solid as it gets. >> rich, what do we know about the actually pilot, the lead pilot of the plane? i take it that this pilot posted videos of a flight simulator he actually had in his home? >> yes, captain shah is again very e...

Operational control of the airplane. they didnt pay attention. thats what it looks like. but keep in mind, these were not people that had just found the airplane. landing at san francisco is not in weather like that is not particularly a difficult act. its not like hong kong airport or something. but we had basically two cockpit crew or actually three pilots in that cockpit who just didnt pay attention. it looks like. and thats what really happened. and again, there were all professionals but so...

Plane in san francisco. in this exclusive video obtained by cnn, you can see the plane start to descend, it then appears to strike the seawall, loses control and crashes. >> he was also flying with a check captain or a training captain. there were two other crew members, another captain and first officer who were also flying. again, remember, this is a very long trans pacific flight, the four crew members are there for relief. >> as this animation shows. the wide body jet clipped the seawall whi...

Flying 747s according to the airline, had only limited experience flying a boeing 777. just 43 hours. he had never landed that type of plane in san francisco. in this exclusive video obtained by cnn, you can see the plane start to descend, it then appears to strike the seawall, loses control and crashes. >> he was also flying with a check captain or a training captain. there were two other crew members, another captain and first officer who were also flying. again, remember, this is a very long ...