Nigeria's airline industry is in dire financial
straits, putting its already poor safety record at risk of further
deterioration. Here is a list of major air disasters to hit Africa's
most populous nation in the last 11 years:
July 11, 1991 - A Nigerian Airways DC 8 carrying 242
pilgrims crashed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. All 261 people on board were
killed.
September 26, 1992 - A Nigerian Air Force C-130 crashed
minutes after taking off from Lagos airport. Around 200 people died.
June 24, 1995 - A Harka Airlines Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-134 crashed at Lagos airport, killing 16 people.
November 13, 1995 - A Nigeria Airways Boeing 737 crashed on landing in Kaduna, killing nine people.
November 7, 1996 - A Boeing 727 operated by Nigeria's
ADC crashed on its way from Port Harcourt to Lagos. All 142 passengers
and nine crew died.
May 4, 2002 - A Nigerian EAS Airlines BAC 1-11 crashed
in Kano. At least 148 people were killed, 75 on the plane and at least
73 on the ground.
October 22, 2005 - A Nigerian Bellview Airlines Boeing
737 airliner crashed shortly after take-off from Lagos. All 111
passengers and six crew were killed.
December 10, 2005 - A Nigerian Sosoliso Airlines DC9
from Abuja crashed on landing in Port Harcourt, killing 106 people, half
of them schoolchildren on their way home for Christmas.
September 17, 2006 - Twelve Nigerian military
personnel, mostly high-ranking officers, were killed in a plane crash in
Benue state. Six survived.
October 29, 2006 - An ADC airliner with 114 passengers
on board crashed and burned after take-off from Abuja, killing 96
people.
June 3, 2012 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-83, operated by
privately owned domestic carrier Dana Air, carrying 147 passengers and
six crew, crashed in the Agege suburb of Lagos, killing all on board and
10 on the ground.
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