MD80 krasjet i Nigeria

[Stone]

Enda et bidrag til Nigerias begredelige sikkerhetsstatistikk:

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/ar...artid=10065845

Dana Air MD83, like etter avgang fra Lagos til Abuja:

http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/plane-crash-iju-lagos

Nitriste greier....

[LN-MOW]

Det var to på rappen, det, etter 727F'en som crashet i Accra i går...

[C130]

Huff, sørgelige greier.
Men det er vel ikke for ingenting at de fleste flyselskaper der nede fra er bannlyst i Europa.

[LN-MOW]

5N-RAM er ex Alaska Airlines N944AS, bygd i 1990. Kapteinen antas å være amerikaner - annenpiloten fra India.

A Dana Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration 5N-RAM performing flight 9J-992 from Abuja to Lagos (Nigeria) with 147 passengers and 6 crew, was on approach to Lagos about 11nm from LAG VOR when the crew declared emergency reporting engine problems. At about 15:00L (14:00Z) the aircraft collided with a power line, crashed into a built up area about 1nm abeam threshold runway 18L at Oluwatoyin Street (not intersection of Toyin Street and Olowu Street as originally reported) and burst into flames. A number of residential houses around the crash site were on flames, too, a large smoke plume was visible above the city. All occupants of the aircraft perished in the crash, there is no information yet about victims on the ground.

http://avherald.com/h?article=4508fb60&opt=0