Lancelot37

News flash from BBC showing airliner crash in Nigerian capitol. Details to follow.

IRISHPILOT

From the BBC:

"Plane crash near Nigeria capital

A passenger jet has crashed near the Nigerian capital, Abuja, police say.

Doctors were urged to go to the airport after the plane, on an ADC airlines flight to Sokoto, went down. More than 100 people were on board. (...)"

Nothing on the ADC website.

Lancelot37

[quote=IRISHPILOT;2935178]From the BBC:

"Plane crash near Nigeria capital

quote]

The pilot of Bellview Airlines flight 210 sent a distress signal just after taking off from Lagos for the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in stormy weather at 2045 (1945 GMT) on Saturday. 117 pax and crew lost.

POL.777

Flight 210 was in Oct. 22nd 2005.

Flight Safety

From CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa....ap/index.html

XPMorten

ADC apparently operates 2 B732's





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Flight Safety

XP Morten, according to the ADC Airlines website, they actually own four 732s.

Here's a link to the previously mentioned 5N-BEE, apparently the only ADC Airlines AC available on Airliners.net.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0851647/L/

From the ADC Airlines website, here's the flight schedule for today.

SUNDAY
FLT.NO FROM TO DEP ARR

076 CALABAR LAGOS 0715 0825
074 CALABAR LAGOS 1715 1830
073 LAGOS CALABAR 1530 1645
075 LAGOS CALABAR 1915 2030
063 LAGOS ABUJA 0855 1005
066 ABUJA LAGOS 1335 1445
053 LAGOS SOKOTO 0855 1135
054 SOKOTO LAGOS 1205 1445
054 SOKOTO ABUJA 1205 1305
053 ABUJA SOKOTO 1035 1135

It looks like flight 66 is the one involved. It could also be the second leg of flight 54. Actually, these 2 flights look the same.

Sorry, it just occurred to me since I'm mentioning flight numbers. My condolences to all who are involved in this terrible tragedy.

Dan Air 87

Another tragedy in Nigerian skies; I would like to post my sympathies to the families of the crew members who lost their lives and to the relatives of the pax who died.

Now there will be the usual outbreak of recriminations in Lagos and Abuja by the authorities. What we really need to establish is why are there so many incidents on take off in Nigerian airspace?

Flight Safety

Now CNN is saying it may have been flight 53 from Abuja to Sokoto. They are also saying there may be survivors.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa...ash/index.html

jondc9

it sounds like both planes are tired and old. while older planes can fly quite well they need responsible and diligent mx...I can imagine that was lacking.

how many of you , even prior to this tragedy, would have cheerfully reccomended flying on any Nigerian airline?

jon

jondc9

does anyone have the wx at the time of the crash (just before and after)?

does anyone have a nice diagram or chart of the airport and surrounding terrain?

I've heard reports that the plane either took off during a "storm" or caught fire shortly after takeoff.


just a few too many crashes in nigeria to really make sense as genuine accidents...

hobie

More info from BBC news .....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6096420.stm

FO JimmieJames

Deepest sympathies to the families. Terrible loss.

I guessed it was a 732 when I heard the news this morning. They seem to be dropping out of the sky left, right and centre. Does anyone feel the same as I do, but surly isn't it time for this great work horse of the skies (B732), to be put to rest. It is sad that all the wealthier countries who were operating the 732's have sold them off to poorer operators in Africa and South America, and they seem to be the one's suffering.
Maybe I am wrong - interested to here comments.

TomBola

How tragic that yet again Nigeria has another aviation disaster. Myself and many of my friends in Nigeria are too frightened to catch domestic flights apart from those operated by the only 2 operators that are recommended by most embassies.

My heart goes out to the families of those who have died and I wish my sincere condolences. I hope that the 7 survivors will recover fully.

FO JimmieJames

Just seen the BBC website, and they say it was a B727. However if you see the photo of the broken tail, it must have been a B737, as the Horizontal Stabilizer is mounted on the fuselage, unlike the 727 which is high mounted. Think the BBC got it wrong.

Safe-T

Despite all the chaos and misinformation, some official was now quoted saying it was a 23-yr old Boeing 737-2B7!
This would make it one of the two former USAir / Metrojet planes that were flying for ADC.

Voeni

i feel sorry for the dead ones - they are not the ones to blame

but after having been to nigeria a few days ago and experienced nigeria aviation once again... are you really surprised???

hetfield

Planes don't fall down just because they are old....

Kalium Chloride

I'd hate to be picky, but the BBC report says:



So the BBC didn't get it wrong. AP news agency got it wrong. Hence the importance of quoting sources.

Wouldn't surprise me if it was an official airline spokesman or some self-proclaimed "expert" spotter who told AP it was a 727 either.

W.R.A.I.T.H

is that the country where an Air France A330 had an incident a couple of years ago - runway incursion by a herd of cattle, killing several and damaging the undercarriage? And where the complaint was dismissed by the aviation authorities as a normal occurrence? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but in light of the state of affairs in aviation there, definitely not the aircraft nor its age to be blamed here, imho.