₦airaland Forum

ballabriggs: Laugh at your ignorance. Only in your ignorant mind[b] must an economist write a book[/b]. Do I blame you, when you don't even know the meaning of the word "Seasoned". Like I said you can hit your head on the wall, the man is not out to impress you. He is an achiever and only higher minds know what he is worth.

Of course NO. Why write a book when you can plagiarize others?

pcnwamadi: Me and Ʊ who is illiterate? Was dere no plane crash b4 before jonathan came in? Ode

There were some crashes here and there before he became president. However, there was none before he was born and going by Eko-Ile's logic, there will be none after his death. So yes, Eko-Ile is partly right, GEJ is the reason planes crash in Nigeria.

Eko Ile: It's the Job of the federal government to monitor and regulate the airlines like Dana to make sure that their inefficiency doesn't kill Nigerians though unfortunately, the useless FAA like other arms of the government was snoring or looking the other way while airlines put coffins with petrol in the air for Nigerians to fly on.

Your stupidity is just astounding. How you manage to have access to the internet is still baffling to me. First of all, the plane that crashed uses diesel, not petrol. Secondly, The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is the civil aviation authority of Nigeria, not your fictional FAA. At least, if you want to criticize, criticize intelligently.

2 former heads if the FAA are currently on trial for corruption and I'm sure if not for corrupt GEJ, the current head of the FAA shouldn't have any government job in Nigeria.



Yes, I don't understand illiterates like you too.

What I want to know is how you got your a/r/s/e-licking job? I am convinced there are better and more articulate /a/r/s/e-lickers out there.

alj harem: Even worse some are thinking those people remains would be used for road construction. [/b]Of course if there is blood on the raod people would complain not to talk of human remains.

I am all for recycling. Whatever makes our world greener, I am all for it. What better way to [b]greenerize our world than using dead bodies to fill pot-holes? Filling of pot holes with dead bodies save lives and it is also a reminder to us still alive of what not to do. It is win-win for all of us, more so for the dead.

Beaf: The way I see it, Eko Ile will soon be used to fill a pothole. Na di tin wen de reign for lag now.
The only thing I'm afraid of is that his head can burst tyre!

I wont mind driving on Eko-Ile's a/r/s/e one of these days. Ikorodu is right up my ally

musiwa.,:
Some of you dont know how to think. Goodluck is not a wise person. He just became unpopular. If majority say they dont want something. And you continue to say you want it. And everybody knows we have yeye senate and house of rep... What does that make you.

Look How many people can abiola win for you. Nobody.

[size=18pt]The student are over 20,000 and each of them have family like 200 each. 20,000 X 200 == 4,000000 vote. Not to talk of their friend who are in other universities who support them.. Which bring the total population to nearly 500,000 X 200 families = 100 million people on the side of the student..[/size]


Do you know any normal person in his brain who displease 100 million people to please lola Abiola-Edewor. How can that make you popular.. talking of the name edewor. sound familiar.

I think some of you need your brain examine.

Hilarious!

Kobojunkie: What does delivers mean? She had to poop it out since even women do not deliver babies from their rectum. What is wrong with these journalists of ours. They pi** me off.

you are indeed very stupiddddd. with your horrible English, you wan dey form? If you could do better, why not become a journalist? ode oshi

verb: relinquish possession or control over
http://www.onelook.com/?w=deliver&ls=a

Lawsuit filed in US over Nigerian plane crash

By MICHAEL TARM

MORE FROM BUSINESSWEEK


A man whose wife died in the crash of a Nigerian airliner that killed 153 people filed a lawsuit in the United States on Thursday that blames the accident, at least in part, on U.S. companies that designed, manufactured and sold the ill-fated plane.

An American attorney filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago on behalf of David Chukwunonso Allison, whose wife, Joy Chiedozie Allison, was on the Dana Air MD-83 that went down in the African nation Sunday afternoon.

Among those named in the 56-page lawsuit are Chicago-based Boeing Co., which bought the McDonnell-Douglas manufacturer of the plane, and Connecticut-based engine-maker Pratt & Whitney.

Gary Robb, a Kansas City, Mo.-based aviation attorney who filed the lawsuit for David Allison, said reports of engine failure as the plane approached Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, point to the companies' culpability.

Nigeria's Aviation Minister Stella Oduah said Wednesday that the flight's captain radioed Lagos as the aircraft approached and declared an emergency, saying both of the MD-83's engines had failed. Minutes later, the plane crashed into several buildings.

"That is always incredibly significant information," Robb said. "Engines do not fail unless something goes dramatically wrong."

Without offering details, the suit claims the Pratt & Whitney "engines used a defective and unreasonably dangerous design."

A Thursday statement from Pratt & Whitney responding to the lawsuit didn't address any specific allegations but said "our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of all those involved in this incident."

"Pratt & Whitney is cooperating fully with investigating authorities and we are unable to offer any further comment as the investigation is ongoing," the statement said.

A spokesman for Boeing did not return several messages seeking comment Thursday.

Joy Allison, who lived in Lagos with her husband and 1-year-old daughter, worked for a Federal Express office in her home city, Robb said. The lawsuit seeks damage payments, though an amount will be determined later.

Robb conceded that pinpointing a precise cause of the alleged engine failure would take time. But he said filing the suit now would help ensure he and his own investigators had legal recourse to request the plane's flight voice and data recorders, and other evidence.

Francis Ogboro, an executive who oversees Dana Air, defended the airline Wednesday against growing public criticism, noting that its own chief engineer died on the doomed flight.

The MD-83 had undergone strenuous checks like the others the carrier owns and that he routinely flies, he told journalists.

The chief engineer "certainly would not have allowed that aircraft to take off" if there was a problem, Ogboro said. "No airline crew would go on a suicide mission."

Emergency officials on Wednesday stopped searching for those killed at the crash site in Iju-Ishaga, the Lagos neighborhood about five miles from Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport.

Officials still aren't sure how many people died, and a complete death toll could take weeks. The plane smashed into two apartment buildings, a printing business and a woodshop.

Authorities have collected the flight voice and data recorders from the plane and plan to send them to the U.S. for analysis. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board also has sent an investigator to assist Nigeria's Accident Investigation Board.

At least seven Americans were among those killed.


http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06/D9V8J1M80.htm

LocalChamp: Dana Flight 992 Tragedy: Pilot First Asked to Land On Longer Runway After First Engine Failed
Posted: June 6, 2012 - 17:35
Posted by siteadmin

caption: Crashed MD 83

caption: Captain Peter Waxtan was flying the plane
By SaharaReporters, New York
Air traffic controllers have told Saharareporters confidentially that the crashed airliner Dana aircraft most likely had one failed engine long before the pilot declared an emergency. Multiple sources confirmed that the pilot had requested to land on Murtala Muhammad Airport’s longer runway 18R before calling air controllers back a few minutes later to report a total emergency.



They believe that second call was most probably when the second engine failed. The aircraft crashed about seven nautical miles from the local airport.



One source further explained that the MD 83 plane was overloaded with passengers and luggage to the extent that when the first engine failed, the pilots urgently reduced speed to enable the flight land safely on the longer and better runway, an action that led the flight to an extra 20 minutes delay before crashing at 3:43p.m. It had been billed to land at 3:21p.m.



Our sources stated that the drastic reduction in thrust was the undoing of the pilot, given the heavy pay load. To underscore their point that the operators of the jet knew of its mechanical troubles, one of our sources said the jet conducted a short flight test between the Lagos and Ibadan airport on Saturday, apparently to prove to regulators that the jet was “airworthy”.



Several employees of the Dana airlines have publicly stated that the owners were aware as early as Sunday that the jet had mechanical troubles, as it had struggled on a flight to Calabar, but the operators forced the crew to fly it anyway, obviously with an eye on maximizing profit.



Residents that witnessed the crash at Iju Agege area of Lagos have also told Saharareporters that they watched as the pilot seemed to struggle to give the aircraft a final thrust of flight power before the crash, which killed everyone on board.



But speaking for the first time officially today, Dana Air's Director of Flight Operations, Captain Oscar Wason, suggested that a "bird strike" may have caused the crash.



Appearing on Silver Bird TV in Lagos, he said the management of the grounded airline found remnants of birds in one of the engines of the crashed plane.



According to him, “I don’t know what could have been responsible for the crash, but this morning we found remnants of birds in one of the engines.”



He noted that birds were a problem in Nigeria he has experienced several times. “We have bird strikes and it might have been that a mass of birds went through the engine and caused it to lose power.”



However, he said the investigations must be left to come out with an answer. “We have found the voice recorder and that has to be sent to either the UK or Washington. I am planning to travel out myself so that we can found out what is the real cause of the accident.”



It will take several months, if not years, to arrive at the real cause of the fatal crash of Dana Air 992,[size=18pt] as Nigeria typically relies on American investigators to unravel the cause of airline accidents[/size]

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/dana-flight-992-tragedy-pilot-first-asked-land-longer-runway-after-first-engine-failed

D/u/m/b/Nigerians, cant fly a plane, cant stick with laid down rules,and now they cant even investigate an accident that happened on their own soil. We might as well out-source everything in Nigeria.smh

God was /fu/c/king taking a nap when the plane was crashing. . . body no be woood na. I have it on good authority that he only woke up minutes after the plane crashed.

Naija girls wowo no be small . . . chei. No wonder Naija men dey fall head over heels for west indies girls

BetaThings: Above all

Suppose Dana was actually negligent
Should the government allow the same Dana to toy with the lives of more Nigerians?
And suppose Dana was not negligent? Should the government unfairly cripple Dana?

It is really a fine balance to thread - [b]preserve the financial ability of Dana/protect [/b]lives of Nigerians

They are foreigners, we dont care about their financial ability. They'd do the same to us, if the roles were reversed. I support GEJ on this one. Harsh decision? Yes. Irrational, Hellz NO.

Akata family, American family, who gives a damn!

Death is a debt we all owe. It doesnt matter if you are White, Black, Akata, Akata-Nigerian, Nigerian-American, death is no respecter of persons. Why open a thread for someone just because they are Americans when we have hundreds of no-name Nigerians yet to be accounted for. American family of 6, 10, 11, or 300 millions I dont give a shoit; doesnt make me care any less.

People are dying, GEJ is crying, Nairalanders are posting, Boys are not smiling, Seun is cashing,. . . Nigerians, what a bunch of clowns

omo9ja1:
Daniel sorry 8yrs nothing to show my people, I told friends then that this man that was giving stuff before he got into office watch out, he was the only gov's candidate that tour the whole wards , people singing "Ogidi omo" now we all know what they call him in the state, but I think OBJ deserve some respect, DAN you too young o0o0o, and remember may is round the corner so be careful I talk am 0o0o0

Yeah, I remember
He was prolly the only SW governor that actually was voted in

People voted for this guy en masse, me sef, I bought into the brand and how I wish I knew.

OAM4J:
Exactly! I dont think he should be dignified with many responses. Doesn't worth it.


@fstranger1-6

Warrior, you no dey tire of battle? Thought you said you will cool it a bit.

Balogun, cool down o, too much battle is not good for your heart o.

hmmmmmmmmm

^^^^

i dey gbadun you jo

Coolabbie:
I belong wherever i want to. Get it?

No!

I dont want to see you here again

Your tiny brain cant 'comprehende' what we discuss here

Go back to Romance where you belong!

~Bluetooth:


what electoral fraud can be more than that ?

You've got to trust Alaigbo to always out do the Almanjiris!

^^^^

Kobojunkie:
Again you shoot your candidate in the back. Jonathan Goodluck has been working tirelessly to get Diaspora support --- even gone as far as to appoint an ex-beauty queen, turned housewife,his special advisor, possibly to appease a certain group of the diaspora and you are here SHOOTING his efforts down? I say again, you ought to be fired cause you do a very shoddy job creating support for Goodluck Jonathan on here. You are probably better off in a position where you use your head and mouth a bit less. Maybe a role as local agbero would do you better.

Also, I find it funny how you now try to pretend you are yourself in Nigeria so you can pretend to be better than those who readily admit they are not. I remember tumfulu used to play that silly game until when he was exposed. Do you really believe you are the first at this?

His point is that you are neither in Nigeria nor a Nigerian

So why do you incist on making stupidd commentaries about Nigeria?

Leave us alone

Your are White and an American, not a Nigerian.

Madam Kobo, please leave us alone. Mind your business. Go change your tampon or something, it is dirty!

i agree!

tpiah!:
btw i thought having the urge to crunch ice, was a sign of possible iron deficiency.

Agree!

eku_bear:
Support is a noun.

I can give you my support, can't I?

The way Gbawe used it? Gbawe used it as a verb, making obdurate in that context the wrong word/adjective to use

". . . obdurate stance in support of. . . " would have been better!

eku_bear:
I disagree.

Gbawe used it correctly, imo.

Gbawe:
folks like you will always exist i.e enemies of progress and confusionists. I can only hope , someday, you will see the shallowness of your obdurate support

When did the word support become a noun/pronoun?

^^^

Even then, they both used it wrongly!

^^^^
I agree with you Internet Nigerians are fake Nigerians, some of them like madam Kobo arent even Nigerians

So what gives?

dayokanu:
Ori as in Head? Are you trying to give me head? Today is not your turn, check the roster maam

It could be: