"DUAL engine failure caused the crash of a Nigerian aircraft that killed at least 159 people last month, a preliminary official report says.
The probe into the June 3 Dana Air crash traced the cause "to the loss of two engines and non-functionality of the throttles on final descent from Abuja to Lagos", according to an accident investigation report released on Thursday.
All 153 people on board the McDonnell Douglas MD83 twin-engined jet died when it crashed into a neighbourhood near the airport in Lagos, and at least six people on the ground were killed.
The preliminary report said: "... the captain informed the FO (flight officer), 'we just lost everything, we lost an engine. I lost both engines'.
"During the next 25 seconds ... the flight crew was attempting to restart the engines."
The aeroplane then crashed about 10 kilometres north of Lagos.
The report denied media speculation that contaminated fuel could have affected the two engines.
Investigators will conduct further probes into the crash, the report said."
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