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Timeline Of Plane Crashes In Nigeria. by Bodmas80: 9:38am On Oct 04, 2013
January 22, 1973– Royal Jordanian Airlines flight 707 carrying 171 Nigerian
Muslims returning from Mecca and five crewmen died in a crash
in Kano, Nigeria.


March 1, 1978– Nigeria Airways F28-1000 crashed in Kano killing
16.


June 24, 1995– Harka Air Services Tupolev 34 crashed on
landing in Lagos killing 16.


November 13, 1995– Nigeria


Airways Boeing 737-2F9 crashed on
landing in Kaduna killing 9.


November 7, 1996– A Nigerian ADC (Aviation Development
Corporation)

Airline Boeing 727-231 flying from Port Harcourt
to Lagos with 142 passengers and nine crew members crashed on
landing, plunging into a lagoon with all on board killed.


May 4, 2002 –Nigerian EAS Airlines’ BAC 1-11-500 with 105
people on board crashed and burst into flames in a poor, densely
populated suburb of Kano. 76 on board killed, including 72 on the
ground bringing it to a total 148 dead.


October 22, 2005– A Nigerian Bellview Airlines Boeing 737
airliner with 117 people on board crashed and disintegrated in
flames shortly after take-off from Lagos. All on board killed.


December 10, 2005– A Nigerian Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashed
in Port Harcourt, killing all 103 on board. Most on board were
school children going home for Christmas.


September. 17, 2006– A Nigerian 18-seater Dornier 228 Air
Force transport plane, carrying 15 senior army officers and
three crew members crashed leaving only three survivors that
sustained serious injuries.


June 3, 2012- A Dana Airlines Flight 9J 992 carrying 153
passengers on board crashed at a residential area of Iju-Ishaga,
Lagos. No one survived the crash.
However, between 2007 and 2011, Nigeria did not record any
major plane crash for five years. except for the charter
aircraft, Beechcraft 1900D, which disappeared on March 15,
2008 on its way from Lagos. The wreckage of the plane was
discovered six months later with the corpses of the three
persons on board.

And the recent one is the Associated Airline which crash on 3rd of Oct 2013 in Lagos in which 20 people were on board while 13 people were confirmed dead
Re: Timeline Of Plane Crashes In Nigeria. by blessed4ril(f): 2:20pm On Oct 04, 2013
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