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Old 3rd Feb 2004, 05:41
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Or did it not crash?
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationwo...,5605543.story
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Nigeria's Aviation Ministry on Saturday cast doubt on reports that a 25- to 35-seat passenger plane had crashed into waters off the commercial capital a day earlier.

Witnesses and at least one airport official in Lagos reported the crash on Friday, saying the plane had disappeared under the waves along a busy West African flight path that is also used by multinational oil companies to fly workers to and from facilities in Nigeria's oil delta.

But no airline has reported any planes missing so far, the Aviation Ministry said in a statement Saturday. A rescue boat dispatched by the government earlier in the day combed the waters off of Lagos, but found no evidence of a plane crash.
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