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Jetliner With 104 On Board Crashes In Nigeria by segoye2(m): 8:55pm On Oct 29, 2006
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/10/29/nigeria.crash/index.html

(CNN) -- A Nigerian airliner carrying 104 people crashed Sunday near the Abuja airport shortly after takeoff and burst into flames, airport and government officials told CNN.

A hospital official told Nigerian television channel NTA that his facility was treating seven survivors.

The Boeing 737, operated by Nigerian airline ADC, was still on fire at the edge of the runway hours after it crashed around noon (6 a.m. ET).

Debris from the shattered plane, body parts and personal belongings of passengers were strewn over an area the size of a soccer field where the plane went down in a wooded area, according to The Associated Press.

Rescue workers pulled burned remains from the smoldering fuselage, and about 50 bodies were gathered in a corner of the site, while the tail of the plane hung from a tree, The AP reported. (Watch the scene at hospital near crash site -- :55)

The aircraft was heading to the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto and may have been carrying the Muslim state's highest ranking official, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Mohammadu Maccido, according to a senior source with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo's office.

Flight 53 was scheduled to take off from the Nigerian capital Abuja at 10:35 a.m. and land in Sokoto an hour later, according to ADC's Web site.

Nigeria has a poor air safety record, with at least 11 crashes since 1995 that have killed more than 500 people.

The last crash involving ADC happened in November 1996 and killed all 146 people aboard the Boeing 727. That flight went down in Imota, Nigeria, after the pilot lost control of the plane while trying to avoid a head-on collision with another aircraft.

Third fatal crash in 12 months
Sunday's crash is the third fatal crash for Nigeria in the past 12 months.

On October 23, 2005, a Bellview Airlines plane went down in bad weather near Lagos, killing all 117 people on board.

An aircraft operated by Sosoliso Airlines crashed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on December 10, killing all 108 on board, including many schoolchildren on their way home for the holidays.

Shortly after that crash, Obasanjo temporarily grounded Sosoliso and many leaders of Nigeria's civil aviation industry were fired.

Months later, Nigeria's aviation minister ruled that the plane crashed because it ran into wind shear during landing, according to a news release from Sosoliso Airlines.

Two weeks ago, ADC's chief executive officer Capt. Mfon Udom told a Nigerian newspaper he expected his airline to be recertified by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority to meet international safety standards by the end of 2006.

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What is really Happening to our Country Naw?
Re: Jetliner With 104 On Board Crashes In Nigeria by buchio7(m): 9:24pm On Oct 29, 2006
d issues r simple but no one in this govt seems to realise it. ,

1)PROPERLY FUNDED AND EQUIPED EMERGENCY RESPONSE UNITS
2) EQUIPPED FIRE FIGHTING TEAMS.
3) SCRAPPING OF 10 YRS AND ABOVE AGED PLANES.
4) TRAINING FOR FIRE- FIGHTERS AND MEDICAL TEAMS( WHICH R SUPPOSED TO BE PRE-REQUISITES IN [b]EVERY [/b]AIRPORT)

these things can be done. If billions can be raised to finance a library dat wldnt put food on d tables of millions of nigerians why cant d same billions be committed in putting in place proper modalities n infrastructure in our airports?

in any case it is well with us all!!

God bless Nigeria
Re: Jetliner With 104 On Board Crashes In Nigeria by segoye2(m): 12:21pm On Oct 30, 2006
I just read this Editorial on Guardian this morning, Should it be that they bought us sub-standard Planes?

Read the Aticle bellow.

The missing $380 billion
THE recent revelation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that Nigeria has lost more than $380 billion (N49, 020 trillion) to theft and wastage in the last 46 years should come as no surprise.

Corruption in public places, looting of the treasury, bribery, inflation of contracts, political chicanery and brazen mismanagement of public resources and institutions have been common, recurrent phenomena in the country. What was missing before now is the precise documentation of the gravity and extent of this ugly fact of our lives. The public is, however, fully aware of the disastrous impact of all these on national growth and development.

The tragedy of corrupt enrichment and wastage has been made possible largely by no other factor but bad leadership, in addition to the absence of a functional reward and punishment system through which a framework of national values could have been created. The figure that has been provided by the EFCC reveals that the aforementioned vices have been part of the national experience and process since independence. They undoubtedly assumed a more horrid dimension progressively in the course of time.

The evidence can be found in the country's chronic underdevelopment. In the last 40 years, the quality of human life has dropped in the same manner in which Nigerians have witnessed great failure in other aspects of their lives: education, health care, roads, electricity supply, national employment profile and public institutions generally. The EFCC was set up to address the evil of corruption which has made it possible for money meant for national development to end up in private pockets and accounts, to the detriment of the majority.

The Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu has revealed that the missing $380 million is part of a sum of about $500 billion development assistance granted to Nigeria in four decades. He spoke at the launching in Abuja of a programme tagged "EFCC Fix Nigeria Initiative" and separately to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Ribadu identified the 1980s and 1990s as the worst period for the country in terms of corruption. He also lamented that the $380 billion is six times the value of the amount of money that was used for rebuilding Europe at the end of the Second World War, as part of the well-known Marshal Plan

Ribadu obtained his facts from records that were kept by the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Ministry of Finance. Incidentally, the President of the World Bank, Mr. Paul Wolfwitz made a similar observation to the effect that Nigeria's $300 billion oil wealth has been stolen in the last four decades. It is doubtful whether the two officials were speaking of the same incident. Wolfwitz spoke in far away Oslo, Norway, while Ribadu was in Abuja. What is clear is that while the country made a huge fortune from its natural resources over the years, its leaders squandered most of the gains and thereby pillaged the country's fortunes.

The EFCC's initiative is designed as a collaborative effort to fight corruption, through partnership with civil society organisations, the private sector, the faith community, professional groups and other relevant individuals and stakeholders. The menace of corruption is lamentable. Apart from the loss of huge amounts from development foreign aid, only a tiny fraction of annual budgets are accounted for in the real sense. Every year, the federal, states and local governments claim to spend money on various sectors. In reality however, there is little to show for the huge expenditure.

Contracts are routinely inflated to make allowance for personal gains. In several instances, contracts are not executed at all, or are executed only in part. The country regularly designs lofty plans which are never implemented or completed. In the end, the entire environment is marked by poverty and under-development. According to Wolfwitz, Nigeria is a classic example of how a people in a resource -rich country could wallow in abject poverty.

The EFCC boss identified the 80s and the 90s as being the worst period for Nigeria in terms of the evil of corruption. But this may not be entirely true, even in the absence of reliable statistics to the contrary. The country has made more money from the sale of crude oil in the last 10 years than perhaps in the preceding 20 years. Where has all the money gone? Under the present government, institutions and public infrastructure have practically collapsed.

Despite the EFCC and the adoption of other anti-corruption measures, the nation still experiences corruption at the highest levels of government. Indeed, the country's international rating in the last seven years has been poor. Even the few cases that came to light were scandalous. They include the National Identification Card scam, several bribery and corruption episodes in the National Assembly and at the Executive level, and theft at the state and local council levels. For example, the EFCC itself has confirmed that as many as 24 governors are now being investigated for corruption.

In the instances when public funds were recovered from those who stole them, there has been no satisfactory account from the Federal Government about how those funds would be utilised. In the last four years, sizeable sums were recovered. The EFCC has confirmed that it recovered $5billion and prosecuted 82 persons in the past two years alone. This is a huge amount by any standard. It is enough for instance to completely rejuvenate the country's rail system, and create employment opportunities for citizens. This has not happened, and government officials have no convincing answers.

The EFCC and other anti-corruption bodies should be encouraged. Other institutions that are also responsible for the maintenance of the rule of law would have to be strengthened. What the country needs perhaps is more determination and concerted effort to prosecute those who are caught stealing or mismanaging public funds.

The current trend is unlikely to change if corrupt persons in and outside government, believe that they can always escape sanctions. At the moment, there is an obsession with government service as an opportunity for corrupt self-enrichment; the country's value system would have to be rebuilt over time to re-establish true value, at communal and institutional levels, for honest hardwork, education and self-development, as well as the common good.
Re: Jetliner With 104 On Board Crashes In Nigeria by Odeku(m): 11:56pm On Oct 30, 2006
This is sad, and Shagari lost another child, couple years back he lost 3 kids in a car crash.

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