He stated that the conditions at the airport were dark skies and light precipitation.
On May 4, 2002, an EAS Airline plane crashes into the town of Kano, Nigeria, killing 149 people. The plane cruises at 30,000 feet, tranquil and on schedule. It first crashed through a furniture shop and then into residential buildings next to the workshop in this densely packed neighborhood.The nose of the plane was embedded into the three-story apartment building, damaging only one part of the structure. Yushau Shuaib, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, said they were still trying to get an official manifest on the flight. Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 (SO1145/OSL1145) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between the Nigerian cities of Abuja and Port Harcourt ().At about 14:08 local time (13:08 UTC) on 10 December 2005, Flight 1145 from Abuja crash-landed at Port Harcourt International Airport.The plane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 with 110 people on board, slammed into the ground and burst into flames. The crew was unable to recover the plane, and the data ceased functioning when the aircraft speed was at 160 knots.From the CVR data, 16 seconds before the crash, the Captain called for a go-around, gear up and flaps, a warning horn then sounded followed by a 'too low gear' aural sound. Another eyewitness, a Sosoliso Airlines pilot departing to Enugu, also reported adverse weather condition in the airport. ( It was reported that the approach lights were off because of a lack of diesel fuel which fuel the diesel generators that help give power to the airport's approach lights. He did not say how many were on the flight. The eyewitness was a Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) security guard stationed about 1 km from the runway. A few seconds later, there was an increase of speed to 151 knots, indicating that flight crew had initiated a go-around, however, the aircraft had descended well below 204 ft and headed to the left. The movie, Last Flight to Abuja, tells the story of a set of everyday Nigerian travelers’s who board the last Flamingo Airways flight scheduled to fly from Lagos to Abuja on a fateful Friday night in 2006. Even if they conducted a successful recovery from adverse weather associated with windshear, the procedure adopted by the crew was improper.Andy and Ify Ilabor, the parents of crash victims Chuka, Nkem, and Busonma "Buso" Ilabor, started a foundation called the Ilabor Angels to assist Loyola Jesuit College dedicated a Memorial Hall to the deceased students.The aircraft involved in the accident taken in 1997 while still in operation with It entered the Nigerian registration on 12 June 2003, was owned by The aircraft continued to follow its descent profile. Firefighters tried to put out the smoldering flames of a jet engine and carried at least one corpse from the building that continued to crumble. The 'too low gear' warning then appeared again, and a Ground Proximity Warning System followed.Investigators conducted an interview with an eyewitness of the crash. Sometimes flights in Nigeria issue paper tickets and don't record all passengers via computer. Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority Harold Denuren confirmed that all the passengers on Sunday's Dana Air flight died. 60 meters from the first impact point, the Of the 103 passengers and 7 crew members there were only two survivors, although seven survivors were initially rescued.Among the passengers were about sixty-one secondary school students from Data from Nigerian Meteorological Agency showed that there was a change in the wind speed and direction as the aircraft approached the airport. Crowds clash with police in downtown Chicago after shooting84 arrests reported in 24 hours at massive motorcycle rallyHong Kong police raid pro-democracy media group, arrest founderAlex Azar in highest-level visit to Taiwan by U.S. official in decadesBattleground Tracker: Biden leads in Wisconsin and PennsylvaniaApparent drive-by shooting wounds 9 at family gathering in parkCollin Morikawa, 23, wins first major at PGA ChampionshipBattleground Tracker: Latest polls, state of the race and more5 things to know about CBS News' 2020 Battleground TrackerBiden has edge in North Carolina, race is tight in Georgia — CBS News pollWhy some mail-in ballots are rejected and how to make sure your vote countsWhat happens if the president doesn't accept the election results?Election Day could turn into "Election Week" with rise in mail ballotsGOP confident in Ohio, but Dems think it's within reachPeople gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012.
"Richard said he was watching a film when he heard a loud explosion that sounded like a bomb. The aircraft crashed into a cliff in the northwest section of the island about a mile inland from the coast. Get the latest breaking news delivered straight to your inbox.Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The Nigerian BAC 1-11-500 aircraft exploded in a densely populated section of …
He further stated that the approach lights were not on and everywhere was dark and raining. However, in a nation where the state-run electricity company is in tatters, state power and diesel generators sometimes both fail at airports, making radar screens go blank. Apparently, the pilots had difficulty in sighting the runway and should have carried a missed approach at the Decision Altitude of 307 ft instead of continuing descent below 204 ft.
Be in the know. Thirty seconds before the crash, the aircraft descended for seven seconds and leveled off at an altitude of 204 ft, which was below the Decision Altitude of 307 ft, the airspeed then decreased to 145 knots.