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alexmcfire
31st Jan 2004, 00:02
Saw that Swedish media claim that a passenger plane with 25 passengers has crash outside Lagos, anyone knows anything?
126,7
31st Jan 2004, 01:48
LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- A small plane has crashed in the water off a beach in the Nigerian city of Lagos, emergency officials told CNN.
There was no initial word on casualties and it is not known how many people were in the craft.
Scores of onlookers were at the beach, but as night fell five hours after the crash occurred, search and rescue operations had not yet started.
Officials were awaiting the arrival of navy divers to search for bodies.
Initially, eyewitnesses said the craft was a 25-seat charter helicopter.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country witnessed its last major plane crash in May 2002 when a BAC 1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashed in Kano, killing more than 100 people.
alexmcfire
31st Jan 2004, 21:37
Could it be www.overland.aero that crashed one of their Beechcraft 1900D?
no reds
31st Jan 2004, 21:51
heard a rumour that it`s a 328J on departure with all souls lost - hope to God it`s wrong
Nigerian rescue workers searched Atlantic waters off the city of Lagos on Saturday for bodies and any wreckage of a light aircraft that crashed into the ocean on Friday but experts said there was no trace of the doomed plane.
One aviation watchdog official said the accident was a mystery as no aircraft had been spotted in Nigerian air space and no operator had reported a plane missing.
A boat carrying divers bounced over the waves searching for clues under the gaze of hundreds of onlookers on a nearby beach.
The rescue operation was delayed on Friday following doubts over the crash. Witnesses said the plane wobbled in the air for several minutes before it crashed into the ocean where it submerged completely.
Nigerian aviation officials were unavailable for comment, but industry watchers said there was still no clear picture of the type of aircraft, its operator and number of crew and passengers on board.
The executive director of industry watchdog Nigeria Aviation Safety Initiative, Captain Jerry Agbeyegbe, said air traffic controllers (ATC) in Lagos were ignorant of the plane's presence in the oil exporter's air space.
"This is a freak, the plane is a mystery," Agbeyegbe said. "Certainly it did not depart from Lagos, if it did the ATC would have had information on the aircraft and its travel plan."
He said the aircraft may have taken off from a neighboring country because no Nigerian airliner has reported the loss of its aircraft.
Sources said Nigerian air space was regularly violated by airlines from the West African region.
Local media had reported that the ill-fated plane was a 25-seater on a flight from the commercial hub of Lagos to the oil city of Warri, raising fears its passengers may have been oil workers.
Oil multinationals contacted said they had no knowledge of the crash.
Industry experts blamed the mystery over the aircraft on the deplorable state of aviation facilities at Lagos Airport.
The state of air safety in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has been a source of worry to aviation authorities and passengers ever since the government deregulated the airline industry in the mid-1980s.
More than a dozen private operators have since sprouted in the African oil producing nation with many of them offering only charter services.
One person was killed on Wednesday when an air force trainer Alpha jet crashed in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.
how applicable is this?
said air traffic controllers (ATC) in Lagos were ignorant of the plane's presence in the oil exporter's air space.
concordino
1st Feb 2004, 14:05
This is the second B1900D crash in Africa in under a week !!
:oh: :sad:
bluesafrica
1st Feb 2004, 19:21
It sounds like they donīt know if they had a crash or not...
In case there is no airplane missing from nobody it sure looks like one of these great African mysteries.
Concordino: How did you figure out that it was Beech 1900?
Blues
concordino
2nd Feb 2004, 16:37
hello bluesafrica,
there was a thread on this accident on rumors and news
here is the link: http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=117351
I guess the guys saw a sea plane or something landing on water and they reported it as a crash. The papers are now reporting the crash as UFO.
:confused: