Roraima Airways industrial accident was avoidable

The Britten Norman Trislander aircraft on which the explosion occurred in the Roraima Airways hangar. The damaged wing is visible at left.

The minor explosion on a Roraima Airways plane in June, which resulted in injury to a maintenance engineer could have been avoided if a risk assessment had been conducted before repairs started, the Department of Labour has found.

Around 2.05 pm on June 21, service and maintenance works were being carried out on a Britten Norman Trislander aircraft in the Roraima Airways hangar at the Eugene F Correia International Airport under the supervision of Aircraft Maintenance Engineer Anil Ramprashad when a fire erupted