Victor Aryeetey
Victor Elcis Aryeetey, an Embraer 145 line captain joined Africa World Airlines soon after the company commenced its commercial operations in October 2012.
He had worked as an airline pilot in the defunct Ghana Airways from 1983 till 2005 when the company folded up. He travelled abroad and worked with quite a number of airlines. In South Africa with Executive Aerospace Airlines and Global Aviation Ltd and also in Nigeria with Fresh Airlines and Virgin/Nigeria Airways for quite a number of years before joining AWA in 2012.
Victor Aryeetey is aviation Safety Expert and is currently the Head of Safety for AWA. He has flown the FOKKER 28, DOUGLAS DC9, .D10, and BOEING 737 aircrafts and currently active on the Embraer 145. He has an airplane pilot career spanning over 34 years and had clocked over 15,000 flying hours.
He has specialty in IATA, ICAO, IOSA Safety Management System (SMS), Aircraft Accident Investigation, Safety Risk Management ( Civil Aviation) , Safety Auditing and Emergency Response Planning and Management. He is also the Emergency Response Planning and Management director for AWA.
A KNUST Physics graduate, Captain Victor Elcis Aryeetey worked as a Physics tutor at Achimota School between 1979-1981 before commencing his aviation career first as a pilot- cadet at the Oxford Air Training School, Kidlinghton –Oxford England (UK) in 1981.