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A Nigeria Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 at Zurich Airportin 1983.

A Nigeria Airways Vickers VC-10, leased from BOAC, at Ikeja Airport in 1969.

A company Fokker Friendship is in the background.

Nigeria airways 5N-ABK at Manston Airport, England in 1993.

Defunct airlines in Nigeria.




ADC Airlines

Afrijet Airlines

Air Atlantic Cargo

Air Nigeria

Albarka Air

AL-AIR Al-Dawood Air

Amako Air

Amed Air

Arax Airlines

Axiom Air

Barnax Air

Bellview Airlines

Capital Airlines

Chrome Air Service

Dasab Airlines

Earth Airlines

EAS Airlines

Easy Link Aviation

Freedom Air Services

Fresh Air

GAS Air Nigeria

Hamsal Air

Harco Air Services

Hold-Trade Air

British Aircraft Corporation

IAT Cargo Airlines

Intercontinental Airlines (Nigeria)

Mangal Airlines

Meridian Airlines

Nicon Airways

Nigeria Airways

Nigeria One

Nigerian Global Aviation

Okada Air

Overnight Cargo Nigeria

Pan African Airlines

Premium Air Shuttle

Sosoliso Airlines

Space World International Airlines

Trans Sahara Air

Triax Airlines

Virgin Nigeria

Wings Aviation.








http://allafrica.com/stories/201609190801.html

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Dismantling some of the aircraft.

Okada Air was established in 1983 and had 18 BAC One-Eleven 300s on its books by 1991.

The following year saw the company launch a range of international services, but by 1997 Okada Air had ceased to exist.

Its abandoned airliners were subsequently parked up and left to languish at Benin City for more than a decade.

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A close look at some of the abandoned aircraft has revealed that many have deteriorated beyond redemption such that they can only be sold as scraps to aluminum smelters or iron and steel factories at peanuts.

Apart from occupying space, investigations had revealed that there are certain emissions from the abandoned aircraft that affect signals.

Abandoned and disused aircraft belonging to both operating and rested airlines litter the adjoining areas of the runways.

As a plane taxies to the take off point at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja, for instance, a passenger looking through the window would shudder at the sight of dusty planes belonging to Albarka Airline.

In terminals in Nigeria airports, visitors confronted with several rusty aircraft littering the airport.

In 1985 Nigeria Airways had 17 planes.

Emirates had only 3 planes.

In 2017, Emirates has 256 planes, it is now the largest airline in the Middle East, operating over 3,600 flights per week from its hub at Dubai International Airport, to more than 154 cities in 81 countries across six continents.

Nigeria Airways has none.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Nigeria Airways Ltd., more commonly known asNigeria Airways, was a Nigerian airline.

The company was founded in 1958 after the dissolution of West African Airways Corporation.

It was wholly owned by the Government of Nigeria, and served as the country's flag carrier until it ceased operations in 2003.

The airline was managed by a number of foreign companies, including British Airways, KLM and South African Airways.

It had its heyday in the early 1980s, just after a KLM team two-year-management period; at that time its fleet comprised about 30 aircraft.

The airline's operations were concentrated at Murtala Muhammed International Airport.

Plagued by mis-management, corruption, and overstaffing, at the time of closure the airline had debts of more than US$60,000,000(equivalent to $78,115,051 in 2016), a poor safety record, and its operative fleet comprised a single aircraft flying domestic routes as well as two leased aircraft operating the international network.

Nigerian airports have become an eyesore as both functional and grounded airlines have turned them into graveyards for dead aircraft o a first time visitor to Nigeria’s airports in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja or Kano, they look like graveyards for dead airplanes.







http://www.theafricanaviationtribune.com/2012/11/nigeria-pics-faan-again-gives-aircraft.html

http://planespotter.iteg.co.za/Graveyards_of_Dead_Planes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C4457928227

Ghost town with electricity.


The streets have been empty since the emergency, and it is only now that the images reveal what remains inside the red zone.

Abandoned classroom.

Musical instruments were left strewn across this room after its owners rushed to safety following government warnings.



A factory is frozen in time after its workers left in March 2011 after three nuclear reactors were damaged by a tsunami.

Goahead:
For how long are these places gonna be habitable once again?
Explorers

Cant really say bro, maybe in 5yrs, 10years or 50yrs.

It depends on the amount of contamination during the disaster.

Slot machines.

The insides of buildings, library remain as they were on 11 March 2011, when the lives of inhabitants changed forever.

Animals were left to starve in the streets as their owners fled and the pictures reveal the grim aftermath.

Moment before the disaster, a dining table and seats, complete with bowls and portable cookers ready for food to be prepared, lie untouched for years.

Left behind: The series of photographs reveal what Pripyat has now become, nearly 30 years after the disaster that forced the evacuation of over 50,000 residents.

Masks litter the floor of the factory in the ghost town that Pripyat.

Left behind elementary school, Pripyat.

Dozens of abandoned bikes lie chained to bike rails.

They are among the network of towns and villages near the power plant that were populated prior to the disaster.

Fukushima.



ABandoned stores, Cybercafe, library located in the town near the Fukushima power plant.

A stack of contaminated televisions lie in a heap among the overgrown forests and abandoned buildings near Fukushima.

fukushima

Left behind stores.

Fukushima.



Go karts remain lined up and ready to race in an entertainment park located within the 12.5mile exclusion zone.

Fukushima.




Consumed by nature: Dozens of vehicles lie abandoned during emergency evacuation and covered in overgrown bushes along what was once a stretch of road near the power plant.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Pripyat.




The towns suffered the worst of the contamination from the blast, but increased radiation levels were detected across Europe.

Shattered: Buildings today still stand as they were left during the emergency evacuation, with paint peelings and glass long gone from the windows