Kechi Okwuchi has a plane crash survival story that is no less than a miracle.
Africa 29 Oct 06 |
"We came down here and after an hour and a half I was able to have visual confirmation that she was indeed alive." Al-hamdulila (thanks to God) she'll pull through." But at least two of those aboard, a female crew member and a male passenger, survived. Flight 1145 from the capital, Abuja, was carrying 110 people when it crashed while landing in stormy weather in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt.
"Allah has his own ways of making miracles happen." "She's ok, not in shock.
“If she survives the next two weeks I think the battle has been won.”The other survivors have burns over as much as 40 percent of their bodies and are being treated in a clinic run by the Shell oil company.More relatives gathered at another hospital in the city, where about a dozen corpses were spread on the grass outside its mortuary.Women wailed as companions led them to identify the bodies of children and adults, which were being treated by morticians.
He had been hired by Bellview Airlines after he had been working at a dairy for about 14 years.The AIB stated that a large convective system was formed near the aircraft at the time of the accident. Secret mass grave threatens hard-won gang truce But, Aisha says, one of her sisters told her to pray and all three sisters huddled together as best they could with their seatbelts still on to say their prayers. Nigerian Red Cross officials confirmed no sign of survivors had been found at the scene. The aircraft involved in the accident while still in operation with Spectacular, Sexy Samba Rings in Rio's Carnival Thursday, May 14, 2015 HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Kechi Okwuchi survived a plane crash in 2005 in Nigeria that killed 107 people, including her close friend who was sitting next to her on that plane. Now I have nobody to call me Daddy,” he said at his home in Port Harcourt. "When we got back to the airport we got a call from the hospital here that she (Zainab) was alive but they hadn't seen the rest of them," he says, explaining that it was only at the hospital that it was established all the sisters were there. The BAC 1-11-500 aircraft hit a densely populated residential area, flattening homes. It crashed 10 hours after another engine, from another grounded plane was fitted into it. The 2-year-old Boeing 737-800 flew from Dubai to Kozhikode, also called Calicut, in Kerala.
A Sosoliso Airlines plane lost control and was slammed right onto the ground, bursting into flames.
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Only nine passengers survived the crash The wards at Nigeria's National Hospital in the capital, Abuja, are busy with relations and sympathisers anxious to hear about the miraculous survival … The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites
Nigeria deregulated its airline industry in the mid-1980s and many companies sprang up to challenge the monopoly of state carrier Nigeria Airways. Sosoliso crash: Survivor weds. "The plane somersaulted and when I looked out the window I saw that the tyre was missing.
"I don't know exactly what happened after the plane crashed - we were shouting for help and still praying." Two witnesses reported seeing the plane "weaving from side to side" after taking off, Clark told CNN, and it was clearly having difficulties. Has China's housing bubble burst? She was my only child, she was the center of everything in my life,” said Chigbo, among about 50 friends and family gathered outside the Teaching Hospital’s mortuary.Chigbo identified what she believed were the remains of her daughter Saturday, but now another family has claimed the badly damaged corpse, and its identity remains in dispute.At the morgue’s rear, a car could be seen with a white-and-gold coffin inside, readying to transport a corpse for burial.The plane’s passengers included 71 teenagers from the Ignatius Loyola Jesuit College in the capital, Abuja. Two months after she could have been dead and buried along with 106 other passengers on the Sosoliso plane that crashed last December, one of the survivors, Miss Bunmi Amusan will this weekend put the tragedy behind her as she …
No survivors of Nigeria plane crash. 29 Oct 06 | In Pictures Local media reports said 105 were aboard but later a Federal Aviation Authority officials told Reuters the plane was carrying 69 passengers and seven crew -- 76 in all. David Clark of the AFP news agency told CNN that a reporter at the scene said 74 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage. There were only two survivors, including Okwuchi. Weapons deal strengthened Assad: US intel chief
Kechi and her family 2.
The last major Nigerian air crash occurred in November 1996, when a Nigerian Boeing 727 flying from Port Harcourt to Lagos crashed, killing all 142 passengers and nine crew members. There were 174 adult passengers, 10 infants, two pilots and four cabin crew on board.
Ninety-six of the passengers who boarded the ADC flight from Abuja destined for the north-western city of Sokoto, died including the spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims, the Sultan of Sokoto. Mystery of 400 dead dolphins on Peru coast
Investigators examined the plane’s flight-data recorders, or black boxes, as they tried to find out what caused Saturday’s crash of a Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 ferrying dozens of children home from a Jesuit boarding school for Christmas.Flight 1145 from the capital, Abuja, was carrying 110 people when it crashed while landing in stormy weather in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt.The three survivors are being treated for severe burns at two hospitals, said Uriah Etawo, head of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.“I just feel like part of my life is gone. Africa The crash killed 158 people and left eight survivors. Two days on and Aisha has yet to see her sisters, Jamilah and Zainab, who are receiving treatment elsewhere in the hospital.