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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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Zee News
| 12 months 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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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
A plane that crashed in Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board in Nigeria's worst airline disaster for two decades, reported dual engine failure just before going down, the aviation minister said on Wednesday. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83,...
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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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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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Epoch Times
| 12 months 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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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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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
The crew of Dana Air flight 9J-922 from Abuja to Lagos sent out a mayday call on June 3. There was engine trouble, and minutes later the plane crashed into a crowded Lagos neighborhood, killing all 153 passengers and more on the ground. The fourth...
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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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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months 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
| 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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BBC
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 12 months 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
| 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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News 24
| 12 months 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
| 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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BBC South Asia
| 12 months 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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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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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Officials of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority said the pilot reported engine trouble shortly before Flight NJ992 went down as it was nearing the airport in Lagos , the country's commercial capital, according to local media reports. The number...
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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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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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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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National Public Radio
| 12 months 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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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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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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B92
| 12 months ago
Nigeria's aviation authorities have officially confirmed that all passengers aboard a plane that crashed into a building in Lagos had been killed. (Beta) There were 153 people on the plane, said the government of Nigeria. Although he did not state...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
A Dana Air jetliner crashed into a two-story apartment building Sunday in a densely populated suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, killing 153 aboard, officials said. Officials said it was likely people on the ground also died, but it was unknown how many, CBS...
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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
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
| 12 months 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
| 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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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months 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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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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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.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months 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.
