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Africa Headlines
| 1 year 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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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
More painful is the fact that the late Nwabuwa Okafor, was not a passenger in the ill-fated aircraft. The plane, it was gathered, crash-landed on his apartment while he was observing his siesta, killing him instantly. The deceased had returned from...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Others to Senate 6 June 2012 Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded bills to the Senate to change the names of three federal universities. They are University of Lagos, to be renamed Moshood Abiola University, Lagos, Federal University of...
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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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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Governor Fashola, who met the diplomats at the Lagos House, Ikeja, said the meeting was convened to enable him to convey condolences on behalf of the government and people of the state and to share with the diplomats the processes by which the...
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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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All Africa
| 1 year ago
It wasn't a good weekend for airline security in West Africa. But does that mean we should boycott African airlines altogether? "It's incredibly easy to hype an accident like this and tar all African airline companies with the same brush," warns Alex...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year 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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Zee News
| 1 year ago
All 153 people on board a plane, which took off from Abuja, died after the aircraft crashed into a residential area on Sunday in the country's port city of Lagos. Forty more people on land also perished in the crash, Xinhua reported. Foreign Affairs...
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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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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year 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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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Rescue workers search for bodies at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all passengers and crew aboard, an emergency official said...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
Rescue workers sought to recover corpses and extinguish fires on Monday from a crowded neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, where an airliner plummeted from the sky and barreled into the side of a building the day before. The pilot had reported engine...
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DAWN
| 1 year 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
| 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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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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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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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 1 year 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
| 1 year ago
Also added to curiosity on the cause of the aircraft is the fantastic safety record Dana airline, the owners of the aircraft enjoyed before the crash plus the fine whether reported in Lagos area at the time of the incident. Abuja and Lagos have been...
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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 at the scene of the plane crash in Iju area of Lagos State, Jonathan assured Nigerians that his administration would thoroughly investigate the accident to know the root cause of the air mishap. He said: "So, this particular incident is a...
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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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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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Houston Chronicle
| 1 year ago
The Onita sisters were in Lagos to attend a wedding, Channel 11 reports. Apartment buildings, small businesses and roadside shops were [...]
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The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
Nigeria that killed the 153 people on board have turned their attention to the ruins of a building where more deaths are feared. The force of the impact ploughed the plane into a two-story residential building, which had four to five flats per floor.
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Indian Express
| 1 year 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
| 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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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year 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
| 1 year 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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Merced Sun-Star
| 1 year 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
| 1 year 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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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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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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Christian Science Monitor
| 1 year 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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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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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
The Daily Star People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. Two Lebanese citizens an investor and an engineer were among passengers on a commercial airplane which crashed near the Lagos airport in Nigeria Sunday.
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
It crashed into residential buildings at Olaniyi Street, Iju, a suburb of Lagos, killing more than 30 others on the ground...The plane which obviously had problem in the air tried unsuccessfully to make it but crashed into a church, Mountain of Fire,...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year ago
Beginning from Thursday, Nigeria, the world's largest black nation has been engulfed in a series of air and land tragedies that have claimed about 267 lives and destroyed property worth billions of Naira. Yesterday's Dana Airlines commercial aircraft...
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Inquirer.net
| 1 year ago
Chinese on plane that crashed in Nigeria govt 1:42 pm Monday, June 4th, 2012 People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city on...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Two Lebanese nationals were aboard the plane that crashed in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Sunday, Free Lebanon radio station reported on Monday. The two victims were identified as Nadine Shidiaq and Roger Aawad. A plane carrying 153 people plunged...
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Africa Headlines
| 1 year 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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Voice of America
| 1 year 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
| 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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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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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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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...
