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Nigerians worried about air safety

By TVC News Nigeria
13 March 2019   |   1:29 pm
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, has reacted to the crash of B737 Max aircraft, belonging to Ethiopian Airlines, which killed 157 people on Sunday.

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