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Zee News
| 1 year ago
An Indian from Kerala, Rijo Eldos, was aboard the aircraft which crashed into a building in a highly populated area of South western state of Lagos on its way from the country's capital city, Abuja. Mahendra Singh Rathore, the co-pilot of the plane,...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Nigeria's government suspended Dana Air's operating license after one of the airline's planes crashed into a two-story apartment building, killing 153 on board. Officials said the cause of the crash Sunday in a suburb of Lagos, which also killed six...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Woman says her sister was on plane that crashed in Lagos, Nigeria 6 June 2012 Last updated at 06:43 ET A woman from Liverpool has told BBC Radio 5 live that she believes her sister may have been a passenger on the plane which crashed in Lagos on...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
Dana Air, owners of the Boeing 803 carrier that crashed on June 03 in Lagos, Nigeria is not an Indian company and the only connection with India is its managing director, Jacky Hathiramani, group communications manager Dana group Tony Usidamen told a...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Farida Kaikai who was employed at the Aso Savings Mortgage Bank in Abuja upon concluding her National Youth Service Corps at the same establishment, boarded the ill-fated plane from Abuja to Lagos after bidding her parents goodbye. Apart from calling...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
08 Nigerian airline Dana Air has had its licence suspended after a crash killed all 153 people on board one of its planes as well as others on the ground. An investigation was launched after the local flight from Abuja plunged into a busy suburb of...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
June 5, 2012 A helicopter hovers on June 3, over the scene of the crash of a Dana Airline plane that was carrying 153 people from Abuja to Lagos when it plunged into a plot containing a church, a two-story residential building, and a printing shop in...
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Kuwait Times
| 1 year ago
Nigerian rescuers have confirmed the first deaths on the ground following a devastating plane crash in the country's largest city of Lagos, raising the death toll to at least 157, an official said yesterday. Meanwhile, rains hampered efforts at the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Nigerian civil aviation authorities today "suspended" the licence of Dana Air, an Indian-owned commercial passenger carrier, after a flight operated by it crashed in Lagos, killing nearly 200 people. Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Sam...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
In my eyes, partaking in the Diamond Jubilee is not just a celebration of Elizabeth's 60 year reign,... A few days ago the Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, had the audacit... Suggested Topics Nigeria has indefinitely...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
VOA News June 05, 2012 Nigerian authorities say the death toll from Sunday's plane crash in Lagos is up to a least 157, after officials confirmed the deaths of at least four people on the ground. Workers have recovered at least 137 bodies from the...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Nigeria suspends Dana Air licence Nigeria's civil aviation authority has grounded all Dana Air's aeroplanes after one of its aircraft crashed on Sunday in a busy Lagos suburb. "Their operational licence has been suspended until we carry out their...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Just before 4 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, a passenger plane from the tiny fleet of Dana Air, a small Nigeria n air carrier, began swaying erratically not far from its destination at an airport in Lagos. Share This Story The plane clipped the top of a...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The ill-fated craft, McDonnell Douglas 83 (MD83), which was bought from Alaska Airlines, US, operated its first flight 22 years ago, according to Dana Airline at a press briefing Monday...Although there is an endless argument about age of the...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Speaking in Lagos, Director of Flight Operations, Captain Oscar Wilson; Director of Ground Operations, Amos Olajide and Communication Manager, Tony Usidamen explained the airline's position, stating that the aircraft was in good condition. Wreckage...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Aviation sector who argued that the airline should be charged with murder because "the particular aircraft McDonnell 83 with Registration Number 5N-RAM had history of technical problems which both the airline and regulatory agencies were aware of"...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Nigerian rescuers have confirmed the first deaths on the ground caused by a devastating plane crash in the country's largest city, raising the toll to 157, an official said on Tuesday. The death toll rose after rescuers confirmed the deaths of at...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The Dana official who spoke to Channels Television in Lagos, alleged that the Indian owners of the airline threw caution to the winds and insisted that the plane must fly in a bid to maximise profit, thereby sending the plane over to Abuja to pick...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
A 26-year-old computer engineer from Kerala was among 153 passengers and crew killed in the Nigerian plane crash on Sunday. Rijo K Eldhose, employed with Hewlett and Packard, was on his way to Lagos from Abuja in the Nigerian capital to attend a...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Struck by one of the most horrific airborne disasters, Nigeria plunged into a period of mourning for the victims of Sunday's plane crash, with the death toll now raised to 193. Share This Story The ill-fated Dana Air was on its way from the Nigeria n...
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BBC South Asia
| 1 year ago
Two Indians die in Lagos plane crash The number of casualties of on the ground is still not known Two Indians are among the 153 people who died in Sunday's plane crash in the Nigerian city of Lagos, reports say. Mahendra Singh Rathore was the the co-...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
The flight that crashed in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos, killing all 153 people on board, reported both of its engines having failed before it went down, the civil aviation chief said on Monday. It was not yet clear what caused the Dana Air MD83's...
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Truthdig
| 1 year ago
Jun 4, 2012 New details are emerging Monday after a plane crash killed at least 153 people in Nigeria over the weekend. All passengers aboard the Dana Air plane were killed, but rescue officials are concerned that more deaths will be reported on the...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Nigeria June 5, 2012 Read later Security officials stand at the site of the plane crash...A passenger plane carrying 153 people that crashed in a neighbourhood of Lagos without survivors also killed at least 10 people on the ground. Search and rescue...
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
THE flight that crashed in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos, killing all 153 people on board, reported both of its engines failed before it went down, the civil aviation chief said today. It was not yet clear what caused the Dana Air MD83's engines to...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Rescue workers gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, June 4, 2012. VOA News June 04, 2012 Nigeria has begun three days of mourning for the victims of the plane that crashed in Lagos Sunday, killing all 153 people on board. The...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The pilot of an airliner that crashed in Nigeria and killed 153 people on board and many others on the ground had radioed he was having trouble, officials said. Details of what happened before the crash of Dana Air's Flight 9J-996 in a suburb of...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
A picture taken with a photo camera shows residents of the Iju district of Lagos, Nigeria, gathering at the site where a Dana Air jet crashed into a neighborhood on Sunday. A picture taken with a photo camera shows residents of the Iju district of...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
President Jacob Zuma sent condolences to Nigeria after more than 150 people were killed in a plane crash, the department of international relations said on Monday. "We join the government and the people of Nigeria in mourning this tragic loss of life,...
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Times of India
| 1 year ago
Rijo Eldos , a young computer engineer hailing from Neriamangalam in Idukki district of Kerala, was one of the 153 victims who was on the Nigerian airplane that crashed on Sunday in the densely populated city of Lagos. According to his family here,...
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Indian Express
| 1 year ago
Fears of heavy ground casualties in Nigeria plane crash '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' Agencies : Lagos, Mon Jun 04 2012, 14:51 hrs Fears mounted in Nigeria today that a large number of people may have been killed on the ground...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
The Boeing MD-83 operated by Lagos -based company Dana Air crashed into a printing works and residential buildings before bursting into flames, killing all 153 passengers on board and others on the ground, with the exact death toll remaining unclear.
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Daily Nation
| 1 year ago
Nigeria's aviation authority on Sunday announced the start of an investigation into the crash of a passenger airplane which killed nearly 200 people. We don't believe there are survivors," he said, adding that the flight originated from Nigeria's...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Over 150 people were presumed dead after a passenger plane plunged into a densely populated region of Lagos, southwest of Nigeria , on Sunday. Share This Story All 153 passengers aboard Dana Air perished in the crash, Nigeria 's Civil Aviation...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
The plane belonging to Dana Air took off from the capital Abuja and was due to land at Lagos airport when it crashed into residential buildings in the Agege area of the city on Sunday night and burst into flames. Harold Demuren, the director-general...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
And one rescue official said he believed a number of the bodies being taken away had been people killed on the ground rather than passengers. An official with the National Emergency Management Agency said the plane had hit two buildings: a church and...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
According her "I am extremely saddened by the news of the crash and I assure the nation that investigations are underway," she said. Report reaching us has it that the crew of the aircraft declared May Day, an emergency announcement in the aviation...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
A commercial aircraft belonging to Dana Air heading to Abuja on a local flight crashed in densely populated residential area in the Iju/Shaga area of Lagos less than five minutes from Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos. Several eyewitnesses,...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The plane, which went down in a residential area in the Iju-Ishaga Alagbado area of Lagos, killed all 153 passengers and crew on board. The report pointed out that the casualty figure was so high because the plane was carrying a full load of fuel for...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
June 3, 2012 A passenger plane carrying 153 people on board crashed in Nigeria's largest city and commercial capital, Lagos, with all feared dead, according to officials. The aircraft crashed into a two-story building late on Sunday, sending thick...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Nigerian plane crashes Updated June 04, 2012 03:19:24 A plane has crashed into a downtown area of the Nigerian city Lagos with 147 people on board, the national emergency management agency has confirmed. A source at the agency says the aircraft...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
The plane was on a local flight from Abuja and crashed into a densely populated residential area in the Iju/Shaga area of Lagos. Though initial reports say the flight had 153 passengers on board, a statement from the office of the Minister of...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Dana Aircraft Crashes in Lagos 3 June 2012 A passengers aircraft belonging to Dana Air has crash-landed in Lagos. The plane which took off from Abuja crashed near Iyana Ipaja, a busy suburb of Lagos as it was about to land. A reliable source said...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Salvage teams have reportedly discovered the flight recorders from the Russian Sukhoi Superjet that crashed in Indonesia, killing 45 onboard. The devices are hard to reach as they lie at the bottom of a ravine 500 metres deep. Published: 03 June,...
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Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Dana Air flight carrying 147 people crashes into densely populated area; no word on casualties. A passenger plane carrying almost 150 people crashed into a densely populated part of Lagos on Sunday, in what looked like a major disaster in Nigeria's...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
51 am Monday, June 4th, 2012 Map of Nigeria locating plane crash in the Iju district of Lagos. Sunday in a densely populated district of Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, the head of Civil Aviation Auuthority told AFP, adding he feared none had...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
A passenger plane crashed into a building in the Nigerian city of Lagos Sunday, authorities reported. Rescue workers and volunteers were on their way to the area amid media reports of at least 150 dead. Broadcaster Channels TV put the death toll at...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Angela Davies, a resident of the area where the plane crashed, said the plane had the brand of domestic airline Dana Air. Dana officials and civil aviation authority were not immediately available for comment and there was no word on casualties.
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Nigeria A plane struck a two-story building in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos on Sunday, resulting in an unknown number of casualties, officials said. The head of the Civil Aviation Authority told AFP that the plane was carrying 153 passengers. "...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
The Dana Air flight crashed into a building, said Akande Iyiola, zone coordinator with Nigeria's Emergency Management Agency...The crash triggered three house fires, said Labaran Ahmed, a rescue officer with the agency. CNN's Vladimir Duthiers, Nana...
