"The Federal Government announces with regret the unfortunate air crash of Bellview Airlines ... which resulted in the loss of life of all passengers and crew on board," a government statement released late on Sunday said, according to Reuters news service.Dismembered and burned body parts, fuselage fragments and engine parts were strewn over an area the size of a football field near the village of Lissa, about 30 km (20 miles) north of Lagos. The Bellview Plane Crash• Victims dies a week to wedding. Meanwhile, Obasanjo's wife, Stella Obasanjo, died Sunday at a hospital in Spain, officials said. The identities of the officials were not released, pending notification of relatives. TEMILOLU OKEOWO is the that kind of personality that happens to humanity once in a century.
We can't even see a whole human body," Reuters reports a senior police official at the scene as saying.Video from the crash site showed smoldering wreckage scattered over a rocky hillside. Below: the poem I wrote and dedicated to the victims of the Bellview, and by extension, the Sosoliso plane crashes. 'Fairy-tale' wedding ends in helicopter crash that killed newlyweds less than 2 hours after nuptials Young newlyweds in Texas died when their helicopter plummeted to the ground. Bellview Airlines Flight 210, was a scheduled domestic passenger flight of a Boeing 737-200 airliner from Murtala Muhammed International Airport to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.On 22 October 2005 the aircraft crashed at Lisa Village, Ogun State, killing all 117 people on board.The cause of the crash was never determined. .,.FBI Said There Was a ‘Low Incendiary Device’ on Aircraft, Says Fani-Kayode. Bellview is a Nigerian airline popular with expatriates living in the West African nation and has been operating for about 10 years with no record of any incidents.A storm was passing through Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, about the time the flight left, CNN's Africa Correspondent Jeff Koinange reported. The pilot of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 pilot issued a distress call just before the control tower lost sight of the plane, about three minutes after takeoff, officials said. Apart from few of the iron bars placed in strategic places indicating the grave numbers of victims which have rusted away, the land on which the arcade is built, has started sinking as well. Amazing. Contents. The cause of the crash was being investigated.
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13 years after the crash, I wonder how the families of the victims are faring. THE National Assembly Joint Committee on Aviation investigating the Dana plane crash was told, yesterday, that seven years after the Bellview plane crash … that ill-fated Bellview Plane crash seems to have been abandoned to grass and rodents who are now the major landlords in that eerie empire. The airline is a private Nigerian company, popular with foreigners and wealthy Nigerians, which flies routes throughout west … She had traveled to Spain to undergo surgery and died from complications resulting from that surgery. In this new sermon delivered by Prophet-Shepherd and leader of Celestial Church of Christ, Elisha Parish (Europe & Nigeria), Prophet (Dr.) M.K.O. Last week, a most horrendous and barbaric phenomenum was visited on the psyche of Nigerians with the gruesome murder of an infant by an irate mob who accused him of child kidnapping. I still wonder why these airliners put lives in joepardy by using 35yr old when they fully know that air disasters are fatal and the best measure should've been in place to avert such. A Red Cross official at the site said there was a 70 foot (20 meter) crater where the main impact occurred, Reuters said.There were 111 passengers and six crew members on board, according to Bellview Airlines.The plane was headed to the Nigerian capital of Abuja when it crashed, officials said. The pilot of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 pilot issued a distress call just before the control tower lost sight of the plane, about three minutes after takeoff, officials said. They were headed to Abuja for a meeting.Reuters said the plane was believed to be carrying a U.S. consular official and some European passengers as well. The plane was missing for hours before the wreckage was found shortly after dawn. “Apapa railway station, after the painful death of our beloved Late Alhaji Waziri Kyari Mohammed in a Bellview plane crash, which occurred on 22nd October 2005 at Lisa in Ogun State, was most officially named after him who until his untimely death was the Chairman of Nigerian Railway Board.
Bellview's management said the crash was the first by one of its planes in the company's 12-year history, the BBC's Sola Odunfa in Lagos reports. "The aircraft has crashed and it is a total loss.
There were widespread rains and thunderstorms around the southwestern corner of Nigeria, particularly near Lagos to Ibadan, CNN's meteorologist Mari Ramos said.The normally bustling airport in Lagos was quiet Sunday with family members of passengers waiting for news of rescue efforts.President Obasanjo called on the country's people to pray for the passengers and their families, officials said. Obasanjo's office said in a statement that the president was personally overseeing search and rescue operations. Relatives of those on board also chartered a helicopter, and search teams were dispatched.The twin-engine Boeing 737 left Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos at 7 p.m. (6 p.m. GMT) Saturday as Flight 210 en route to Abuja -- a trip that should have taken about 50 minutes.Several high-level Nigerian officials were believed to be on board the privately owned jet, the office of President Olusegun Obasanjo told CNN. The horror of December 10, 2005, is a feeling better imagined than experienced, and I wish it was one they did not have to ever go through. In this new sermon delivered by Prophet-Shepherd and leader of Celestial Church of Christ, Elisha Parish (Europe & Nigeria), Prophet (Dr.) M.K.O. (CNN.com gives you the latest stories and video from the around the world, with in-depth coverage of U.S. news, politics, entertainment, health, crime, tech and more.CNN.com gives you the latest stories and video from the around the world, with in-depth coverage of U.S. news, politics, entertainment, health, crime, tech and more. Bad …