25-Seater Plane Crashes on Lagos Beach
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25-Seater Plane Crashes on Lagos Beach
LAGOS (Reuters) - A 25-seater plane crashed on a beach near Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos, a private television station, Channels, reported on Friday.
Details of the crash were not immediately available, but the station said rescue workers had already been dispatched to the scene, Goshen Beach.
Details of the crash were not immediately available, but the station said rescue workers had already been dispatched to the scene, Goshen Beach.
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Bit more from AP: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGARTXFL2QD.html
CNN reporting it as a 25-seat helicopter. Mil-8 ??
CNN reporting it as a 25-seat helicopter. Mil-8 ??
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Beech 1900 according to local news:
http://www.thisdayonline.com/news/20040131news01.html
(See thread in Africa forum also).
http://www.thisdayonline.com/news/20040131news01.html
(See thread in Africa forum also).
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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.
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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This 'occurrence' has been removed from ASN, based on this local news item: http://www.thisdayonline.com/sunday/20040201news03.html
(hopefully)
(hopefully)
