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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
In his remarks shortly before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council meeting, President Jonathan said his administration was prepared to take whatever action that might become necessary after the investigation to prevent the recurrence of...
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United Press International
| 12 months 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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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
The Federal Ministry of Aviation in a statement said the allegations were farther from the truth. Special Assistant to the Minister of Aviation, Joel Obi, said: "There is a widely circulating rumour that the airspace was closed to facilitate the...
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Al Jazeera
| 12 months 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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The New Zealand Herald
| 12 months ago
Excavators used a crane to tear down the ruins of a two-story residential building where officials feared more bodies could be buried...Chineyere Peace Eweh, 37, said she was at church when she received a call that her home was on fire. "When I came...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 12 months ago
The MD-83 went down in Lagos' Iju-Ishaga neighborhood, about nine kilometers (five miles) from Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport. The area has grown dramatically over the decades since British colonialists first established an airstrip...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Nigeria's government has suspended the air licence of Dana Air, two days after 153 people died in the country's worst airline disaster for 20 years, the aviation ministry said on Tuesday. Dana Air said the plane had experienced no mechanical faults...
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Kuwait Times
| 12 months 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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The Independent
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 12 months ago
Nigeria (AP) Anxious families and diplomats crowded into a hospital in Lagos on Tuesday and tried to identify corpses from a plane crash that killed the 153 people aboard the airliner and an unknown number of others on the ground. The stench of the...
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Africa Headlines
| 12 months 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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Africa Headlines
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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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The Jakarta Post
| 12 months ago
The heavy rains began Tuesday morning before dawn, flooding roads and bringing down power lines and trees in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city. Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency, said the rains had stopped...
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Indian Express
| 12 months ago
President Goodluck Jonathan declared three days of national mourning and ordered an investigation into the cause of the crash. The pilot of the ill-fated plane had sent out emergency signals while nearing the runway indicating a technical problem but...
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News 24
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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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BBC
| 12 months ago
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has said there will never be a repeat of Sunday's fatal Lagos plane crash, promising improvements to air safety. He was speaking as he visited the crash site where rescue workers are still trying to retrieve...
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The Observer
| 12 months ago
Nigeria declared three days of mourning as it said investigations into a plane crash that killed all 153 people on board could take months. Witnesses said the plane, a secondhand MD-80 run by private operator Dana Air, swayed erratically before...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 12 months ago
The pilots reported engine trouble before the plane fell out of the sky on a clear afternoon, smashing into businesses and crowded apartment buildings near Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport. The flight was bound for Lagos, Nigeria's...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Story continues below Devastating ... a man calls for help at the site of the crash. Photo: AP Mr Jonathan has pledged an investigation as rescuers rushed to pull out survivors from the densely populated poor neighbourhood near the airport. The cause...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Lagos shock at fatal Nigeria air crash BBC News, Lagos The day after one of Nigeria's worst air crashes, workmen at the site of this crowded residential area of Lagos have been busy pulling out the charred debris. Huge cranes have moved in to shift...
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The Courier-Mail
| 12 months 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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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Articles Nigeria n air safety authorities have confirmed that at least 153 people perished when the plane crashed into a residential building in Ishaga, a neighborhood near Murtala Muhammed Airport. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was on its way from the...
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Voice of America
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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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Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
Nigerian law bans aircraft older than 20 years, but the average age of Dana Air's planes is 21.4 years. Sunday's crash killed all 153 passengers and unknown numbers on the ground.
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News 24
| 12 months ago
Nigerian emergency services pulled more bodies out of the still-smouldering, ash-covered wreckage of a plane on Monday that crashed in the commercial hub Lagos, killing all 153 people on board. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of...
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Times of India
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
The flight, which took off from Abuja at 2.13pm, was expected to land in Lagos at 3.21pm. But it crashed into a residential area in Iju Ishaga, Agege, Lagos State. There were no survivors while the number of residents killed in the affected houses is...
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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
As the news filtered in into the domestic wing of the airport, the runway was temporarily shut. There was commotion as some airplanes which were already set for take-off were halted on their tracks. Passengers who had boarded were asked to disembark...
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Africa Headlines
| 12 months ago
A yet to be ascertained number of residents of Iju Ishaga suburb were also killed on the ground. Dr. Levi Ajuonuma, and 138 other passengers according to the manifest released by the airline yesterday. The plane crashed into a furniture workshop and...
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Rediff
| 12 months ago
O ver 153 people were feared dead when a passenger plane tragically crashed into a residential building shortly after takeoff in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos on Sunday. The plane carrying 153 passengers and crew members had taken off from...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
VOA News June 03, 2012 Nigerian officials say all 153 people on board a Nigerian passenger aircraft flight were killed when the plane crashed into a building in Lagos. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of official mourning for the...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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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Epoch Times
| 12 months 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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Africa Headlines
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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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CNN Blog
| 12 months ago
42 p.m.] Dana Airlines Limited has run commercial flights since 2008, according to the company's website . Dana says it "places a high premium on safety" and "adheres strictly to the maintenance schedule for all aircrafts in its fleet, as prescribed...
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Indian Express
| 12 months ago
The aircraft belonging to Dana air caught fire immediately sending billows of thick black smoke into the air at the Iju neighbourhood where it went down. Civil Aviation Authority officials believed there were little chances of finding any survivors.
