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Event: AC Tech. Disaster
Number: 2012-000097
Country: NGA Nigeria
Location: Lagos
Date (YMD): 2012-6-3
Time: 14:43L
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Information Source:IFRC
Comments: A Dana Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration 5N-RAM performing flight 9J-992 from Abuja to Lagos (Nigeria) with 147 passengers and 6 crew, was on approach to Lagos about 11nm from LAG VOR when the crew declared emergency reporting both engines had failed and they were going down. At about 15:43L (14:43Z) the aircraft collided with a power line, crashed into a built up area about 5nm short of the threshold of runway 18L near Akande St (not Adebayo Akande St) and 1.2nm south of LAG VOR and burst into flames. A number of residential houses around the crash site were on flames, too, a large smoke plume was visible above the city. All occupants of the aircraft perished in the crash, so far 16 fatalities on the ground have been confirmed, 5 injured people on the ground have been taken to hospitals.
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