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| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by tEsLim(m): 7:47pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
The government should know that if the plane is found faulty the insurance company wont pay and will force the airline to take responsibilities instead. |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by member479760: 8:39pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Engines out, the pilot of the doomed Nigerian commercial airliner looked for somewhere to put down the aircraft, desperate for open space but finding only a sea of tin roofs and narrow dirt roads. Down below, people quietly rejoiced in their homes that erratic state-run electrical service had returned to their crowded neighborhood on the edge of the megacity of Lagos on a hot Sunday afternoon. The crash on Sunday of the Dana Air flight killed 153 people on board the MD-83 jetliner and an undetermined number of people on the ground. The tragedy struck all of Nigeria's economic classes, from the state-run oil company executive riding on the plane to the working poor on the ground in the country's largest city. As investigators continue to probe what caused the crash, many fear another could happen in a country with a long history of aviation disasters that remains completely unprepared for large-scale emergencies. It's not just those aboard aircraft who face danger, noted Ezekiel Adekunle, the son of a landlord whose apartment building was damaged in the crash. "What about those people at home who didn't board any plane, but the plane came and crashed on them," he said. It was the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for Nigeria, a nation where carriers have longed used aging aircraft and often operate under little government scrutiny. Some passengers clutch Muslim prayer beads or Bibles, softly praying or loudly calling out "Blood of Jesus" as airplanes hit turbulence. Applause and more prayers punctuate landings. But flying is the quickest and safest way to move around a nation about twice the size of California with a crumbling network of roads that drivers in rickety buses and trucks speed along and where robbers lay in wait in the night. Among diplomats and expatriate workers in the oil-rich nation, air travel often becomes a macabre cocktail party discussion, as people swear by one airline or whisper about rumored pending bankruptcies of others. Some of the smaller carriers rely on just one or two aircraft while the largest, Arik Air Ltd., has more than 20 airplanes. Dana Air, owned by a wealthy family whose conglomerate sells everything from fruit juice to cars, had a fair reputation for on-time departures and safety. Politicians and government workers shuttling between Nigeria's central capital of Abuja to its seaside commercial capital of Lagos in the southwest were frequent passengers. Dana's fleet of five planes, all of them U.S.-made MD-83s, stood out among other airlines that rely on Boeing 737s. Passengers got Dana-branded drinks and sausage rolls on each flight. On Sunday, airlines ran the normally reduced number of routes between Abuja and Lagos. The Dana Air MD-83, crewed by a pilot, co-pilot, a flight engineer and four flight attendants, had flown from Lagos to Abuja earlier in the day and was scheduled to depart the capital for Lagos at 2:13 p.m. for the return flight. Abuja's Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is undergoing renovations, so passenger squeeze into one waiting hall where large standing air conditioners cannot cool the hot and humid air fast enough. Those wanting to travel on Sunday crowded against each other, trying to obtain seats on the limited number of flights available. Omonigho Akinsanya was trying to travel back home to Lagos with her 5-year-old son Moyo after visiting her sister. She got angry when a man jumped the line and got one of the last tickets available on the Dana flight. Her other sister, Eseoghene Okor, got a seat and boarded the flight. The man's rudeness saved the lives of Akinsanya and her little boy. Inside the full flight, a cross-section of Nigeria's elite sat in business class and coach. The son of a former vice president during Nigeria's military era, Ehime Aikhomu, sat in first class. Levi Ajuonuma, an executive and spokesman for the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., was nearby. Members of the Nigeria's military were scattered throughout the plane, as were employees of the country's Central Bank. The Anyenes, a Nigerian-American family of six from West Hartford, Connecticut, sat in coach. There were a total of nine Americans on board as well as a Briton, an Indian, a French citizen, at least four Chinese citizens, two Lebanese and a Canadian. The flight taxied and took off into the dusty air outside of Abuja at 2:54 p.m., about 40 minutes later than scheduled. The plane banked and began heading south toward Lagos. It remains unclear exactly what went wrong, but at 3:42 p.m., pilot Peter Waxton, an American from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, radioed Lagos' control tower and declared an emergency, saying both of the Pratt & Whitney engines that hang just below the plane's tail had failed. The MD-83 lost altitude, still miles from the airfield and surrounded by the sprawl of Lagos, a state home to more than 17.5 million. In the final moments, the aircraft neared a small open space in the crowded neighborhood of Iju-Ishaga, about nine kilometers (five miles) short of Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport. The plane barely passed over an uncompleted building before sheering off the top of a mango tree. The belly of the airplane crashed into an empty house. Its nose smashed into a three-story apartment building. On the ground, Abiodun Adeniyi had turned on a PlayStation, happy that electrical power had returned to his neighborhood just ahead of the Nigeria-Namibia FIFA qualifying soccer match at 4 p.m. Without noise or warning, the plane came down. Debris penetrated his roof and rained down. Some struck his cousin's baby, only bruising her face. One of the plane's wings destroyed the rooms of two men who had joined Adeniyi only minutes earlier. As the plane burned, sending acrid white smoke that stung the eyes into the air, thousands gathered around the crash site, taking pictures with their mobile phones and rummaging through debris. It took emergency workers about 20 minutes to reach the site over the narrow, crooked dirt roads. Even then, there wasn't enough water to put out the flames. Residents tried to put out the fire by throwing water from small plastic buckets. Night fell, and private water tankers from nearby construction sites rumbled toward the site, but couldn't get through because cars of onlookers and security officials blocked the road. Soldiers and police tore away pieces of scrap lumber to strike those who wouldn't step back from the shattered and smoldering plane. As of Thursday, it remains unclear how many people in total died in the crash. Government officials have said they likely won't know until they complete forensic testing, which could take weeks. Meanwhile, bulldozers have leveled the remains of the buildings struck by the plane, turning it into an eerily empty lot of airplane parts where security officers were seen thumbing through the pages of a torn family photo album. Adeniyi had immediately packed his belongings and those of his neighbors as the fire still raged from the airplane. Some people approached and began moving his possessions. He thought they were lending a hand. Instead they just walked away with them. Adeniyi doesn't care all that much. "I just thank God that I did not die," he said. "I'm alive." |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by LearnBook: 8:40pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
enyojo: I got this list from Planespotters.net, a civil aviation database with 200000+ photos and information on 30000+ aircrafts. And what you will find after the cut is a comprehensive list of all aircrafts used in Nigeria and their ages. There's actually a 40+ year old plane flying in Nigeria. Wow! See it after the cut... Here is the same info - the african virtual school shows it http://www.africanvirtualschool.com/average-age-of-nigerian-aircraft/ . |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Beautymc(f): 8:41pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
OAM4J: Let's wait for the official investigation. Except that most investigations in Nigeria are hopeless.After that, will the dead people come back? |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Nwoka(m): 8:51pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
Ur fada dia.....since when did iju become a landing point?? |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Jiah011(f): 9:49pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
So has the investigation been completed already? Where are these people getting their presumptions from? From the shoddy records of the planes maintenance history? Till today, there is still confusion on a number of things such as the manifest presented and if it was of those who bought tickets or those who actually boarded the plan. How about the people on the ground of which there has been no mention of the number of casualties or the damage to residential areas? Plans do not just drop out of the sky. The pilot was an experienced pilot also who had flown that air route before. There are so many things that need to be investigated. I tire for these people in leadership. At least give this investigation a chance to be completed. The black box has not even been analyzed yet and its findings presented. These bush people parading as elites have ruined Nigeria. Killers of truth with corruption in their dark souls. At least do not let these people die in vain like the millions before that have been mercilessly wasted in this country known as Nigeria. |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Trustyd1(m): 10:23pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
iyke619: The crash has d mark of satan on it,showin dat there were some spiritual/occultic ritual undertone to it. Imagine there were 153 pple on board:1+5+3=9.plane crashed @ 3:30pm: 3+3+0=6. Date of crash: 3/6/12: (3+6)+6+6(12)=9+6+6. U can see the satanic nos. 9 & 6 in d whole thing. Nigeria beware. The powers dat be are sacrificin Nigerians 4 more powers. Abegi analyser leave us. Na everything be ritual. All I know is that; the devil did it. |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Trustyd1(m): 10:49pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
Where is my waste bin? Nonsense. musiwa.,: |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by guyla: 11:52pm On Jun 07, 2012 |
I dont knw what dis ogboro man of doubtful integrity is blabing, i read here a day after the crash, though i cant remember which topic now, but a guy narated how he boarded dis ill fated flight on 23rd of may, he said while waitin at departure hall, he saw some philipine engineers drainin hydraulic underneath d plane, he said they removed a part dat they never replaced, he workd up to them nd expressd his concern, but d engineers refered him to d pilot after identifying himself, d late pilot tried to allay his fears nd asured him dat he wont fly if d plane its nt wel fixed. They eventualy landed safely nd d pilot waitd 4 him at d door shook his hand nd smiled, as if sayin i told u d plane will make it. Please is there any othr person dat wil corroborate dis story, the plane was sick! |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Guapo(m): 12:12am On Jun 08, 2012 |
guyla: I dont knw what dis ogboro man of doubtful integrity is blabing, i read here a day after the crash, though i cant remember which topic now, but a guy narated how he boarded dis ill fated flight on 23rd of may, he said while waitin at departure hall, he saw some philipine engineers drainin hydraulic underneath d plane, he said they removed a part dat they never replaced, he workd up to them nd expressd his concern, but d engineers refered him to d pilot after identifying himself, d late pilot tried to allay his fears nd asured him dat he wont fly if d plane its nt wel fixed. They eventualy landed safely nd d pilot waitd 4 him at d door shook his hand nd smiled, as if sayin i told u d plane will make it. Please is there any othr person dat wil corroborate dis story, the plane was sick! Yea u are right. I read dat particular post too. |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Nobody: 1:06am On Jun 08, 2012 |
@iyke619 Are u like 6 yrs old  |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by odedipapa(m): 1:54am On Jun 08, 2012 |
iyke619: The crash has d mark of satan on it,showin dat there were some spiritual/occultic ritual undertone to it. Imagine there were 153 pple on board:1+5+3=9.plane crashed @ 3:30pm: 3+3+0=6. Date of crash: 3/6/12: (3+6)+6+6(12)=9+6+6. U can see the satanic nos. 9 & 6 in d whole thing. Nigeria beware. The powers dat be are sacrificin Nigerians 4 more powers.Young man,what is ur problem? Den u r anti-christ wit Rey Mysterio abi? |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by LagosShia: 1:56am On Jun 08, 2012 |
musiwa.,: those pictures you posted of Muslim men in black belong to the Islamic Movement of Nigeria,a Shia Muslim organization with its headquarters in Zaria.those pictures do not belong to the wahhabi terrorists,boko haram. those men in the pictures and also women and children are taken during Ashura commemoration/processions,a religious holiday marking and also re-enacting the martyrdom/beheading of Imam Hussain (as),the beloved grandson of Prophet Muhammad (sa) and third holy Imam revered by Shia Muslims.Imam Hussain (as) was martyred by the Ummayads,the pioneers of wahhabism/salafism that boko haram adheres to.so do not mistake the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (a Shia Islamic organization) for boko haram (an Extremist Wahhabi aka salafist group from the Sunni branch of Islam). please get your facts straight before using propaganda to tarnish the image of people. here is the official website of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria,led by Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky: http://www.islamicmovement.org/ |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by ogochukwunasa1: 2:14am On Jun 08, 2012 |
iyke619: The crash has d mark of satan on it,showin dat there were some spiritual/occultic ritual undertone to it. Imagine there were 153 pple on board:1+5+3=9.plane crashed @ 3:30pm: 3+3+0=6. Date of crash: 3/6/12: (3+6)+6+6(12)=9+6+6. U can see the satanic nos. 9 & 6 in d whole thing. Nigeria beware. The powers dat be are sacrificin Nigerians 4 more powers. this guy is the most foolish person in Nigeria |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by pplsroundtable: 4:37am On Jun 08, 2012 |
Dana airplane manufacturer sued in the USA http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6859572266014065647#editor/target=post;postID=2373963316934024830 |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Biggyd2: 8:52am On Jun 08, 2012 |
So Dana who is fooling who? You now agree that there was a fault? Please people involved should start suing Dana immediately. See link below someone abroad has done so already. A class action could help as well(Barr Onyekachi Ubani current NBA Chairman -ikeja is collating a list of those interested in the class action). You might be told that your matter is statute barred by the time you are 'ready' if you don't act soon. http://www.pilotafrica.com/2012/06/07/man-sues-in-us-over-dana-crash-airline-admits-engine-failure/ |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Nobody: 9:07am On Jun 08, 2012 |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAMENTATIONS OF AN AIRCRAFT My name is MD 83 I was manufactured in 1990 Acquired by Alaska airline For 12 years I served my masters With might and strength And made them smile To the banks Until November 4, 2002 When I developed engine faults And had to make emergency diversion due to smoke in my cabin Passengers disembarked alive. On August 20, 2006 I was again evacuated after landing at the Long Beach, CA Again, due to smoke in my cabin Passengers disembarked alive Concerned about my air worthiness Alaska Airline parked me Until Sept. 11, 2008 for repairs And shifted my burdens to Dana Air, Nigeria On February, 2009 On arrival On the tropical shores of Africa I hid not my state of health On May 3, 2012 A Lagos station manager Said I should be grounded for a check-up That alarm was ignored On May 11, 2012 I made an air return and emergency landing at MM2 Passengers disembarked alive On May 25, 2012 Again, I made an air return and emergency landing due to engine failure Passengers disembarked alive And finally on June 3, 2012 I crashed in Iju, 5-6 nautical miles from touch down, killing all 153 passengers on board and 30 on ground After 22 years Of meritorious service I wished my masters listened And let me rest Now I put tears In the eyes of a nation But come to think of it, If Alaska Air Considered me unfit To fly Americans Why should Dana Air Consider me worthy To fly Nigerians? ANSWER IS.... Bacause we live in Nigeria where corruption, nepotism, criminal negligence, negligence of duties, blatant theft of state property, murder of innocent souls, criminality, abuse of office, no regard to human life, illiteracy, greed, dishonesty has been seen has the order of the day. 1 Like |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Fynist(m): 10:15am On Jun 08, 2012 |
musiwa.,:Oga mi.You need Procold |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Jouslaw(m): 10:39am On Jun 08, 2012 |
they aretalking nonsense...the planewas faulty....even STAFFs said it.. |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by naptu2: 11:06am On Jun 08, 2012 |
Ben Bruce and Tony Uranta were waiting to board that plane. A FAAN official saw them and told them not to board because DANA has had issues with the poor condition of the plane. Read here https://www.nairaland.com/958557/faan-official-saved-me-ben |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by chibaby5(f): 11:24am On Jun 08, 2012 |
Only God can deliver Nigeria. The problem is actually deeper than we know. All we can do is to continue praying. . . |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Jyde89: 11:36am On Jun 08, 2012 |
Bawss1:2ru talk, some people will not jst leave the devil in peace. |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by iyke619: 11:57am On Jun 08, 2012 |
eghost247:Bros, the real rubbish is ur mum's p*u*s*s*y. Cheers |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by tsquainoo: 5:29pm On Jun 08, 2012 |
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| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by Nobody: 6:08pm On Jun 08, 2012 |
Somebody wrote about Dana Air on Wednesday May 30 2012, 3 days before the Dana plane crash!! ===> first paragraph on rightmost column
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| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by velo10: 7:48pm On Jun 08, 2012 |
Looking at the enormous cost and loss of credibility Dana Airlines would face, I don't think they would have let that plane sail if they knew it were disaster bound. |
| Re: Crashed Plane Not Faulty - Dana Management by UKBobo(m): 11:19pm On Jun 08, 2012 |
“Let me assure you that Lloyd underwriters are very famous throughout the world and they don’t like legal polemics." Be very careful, Lloyds will try to duck responsibility by any means possible. They will argue spurious points and try to minimise liability. |
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