The numbers for the Dana Air crash may be as high as 222: 153 passengers and crew and a possible 69 ground casualties. The Voice of America puts the Nigerian death toll from 110 recorded crashes since 1943 with a total of 1500 fatalities. AllAfrica puts that number at 162 fatalities and 16 crashes.
Can we say there has been improvement when there were three crashes in 2005-2006 that killed a whopping 320 people? Regardless of the exact recorded figures, the list of Nigerian plane crashes makes a long, sad story. Carriers have a history of financing problems or corruption.
Prior to Dana Air, the last big crash was Oct. 29, 2006, when an Aviation Development Co. flight from Abuja to Sokoto crashed, killing 96 people after two minutes in the air. There was also the Bellview Airlines Crash in 2005, and Sosoliso Airlines–a plane full of children.
On Wednesday Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council established a nine-man Technical and Administrative Review Panel headed by Group Captain John Obakpolor to “determine the remote and immediate causes of the crash.” But here’s the problem–studies have already been made, and findings found. But where is the implementation of concrete reform?
Is Nigerian aviation industry in a tailspin? We can only hope that progress is being made in this country where governmental corruption has rendered airline regulation ineffective. We have seen time and again in aviation safety, when corners are cut, lives are lost.
After looking at the November 2006 ICAO audit here, we can only hope that Nigeria will redouble its efforts at aviation safety reform.
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A light plane crash that claimed the life of a young pilot and his single passenger on Christmas Eve last year happened amid severe thunderstorms and lightning strikes, early investigations have revealed.
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The carpark was full with aviation fans awaiting Emirates’ double-decker a380.
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The plane was reportedly holding to taxi for takeoff at the time.
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A small aircraft made a hard landing Tuesday at Riverside Municipal Airport.
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The commander described how he suddenly felt the aircraft becoming unstable and beginning to drift to the left. He decided that the aircraft was no longer in a suitable stable state to land.
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Making like truffle pigs and snuffling out deets.
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After the pilot was able to fix the mechanical issue, the pilot was able to take off from the highway.
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Authorities say the passenger was detained Saturday morning.
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Dolly Fisher, who lives with a life-threatening egg allergy, was treated to a Disney World trip by her parents but now they can’t go because Virgin won’t alter their sandwich fillings
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A girl recorded live the crash of the plane she was onboard into a river in Brazil. The live video shows the ditching of a private Embraer 810C Seneca II aircraft. The plane with registration PR-FDL has crash landed into a river in in Brazil. No one was injured. Both pax were able to emergency…
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3 air traffic controllers suspended; Coast Guard chopper makes emergency landing
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An early morning fire damaged a commercial building complex housing an historic airplane factory founded by the Wright Brothers in Ohio on Sunday, authorities said. Dayton fire crews were sent to the site just before 2:30 a.m. and found heavy fire throughout the complex. Fire …
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by Sarah Craighead Dedmon Andy Patterson of Cutler is reported to have died in a plane crash Saturday, March 25, in Johns Island, South Carolina. Patterson was piloting the small aircraft when it crashed. Initial reports indicated Patterson was traveling with a passenger, but officials later clarified Patterson was alone in the Piper PA-28, according to the Charleston County News. The Machias Valley Municipal Airport, where Patterson served on the airport committee, today posted about Patterson’s death. “Yesterday we lost one of our own,” read the Facebook post.
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The low-cost carrier has four more aircraft due to be delivered later this year.
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CHEEKY Ukraine fans launched dozens of paper planes on to the Wembley pitch and sang a song mocking Vladimir Putin. In the 24th minute of the Euro qualifier against England in London, fans hurled t…
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The coast guard’s ALH Dhruv helicopter crashed after take off from the Kochi airport, reports suggest that two people onboard have been injured in the incident.
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India News: An Air India aircraft flying into Kathmandu averted a collision with a Nepal Airlines flight on March 24, 2023, by ascending sharply. The incident occ
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Ghana is known as one of Africa’s most stable democracies, but recently it’s been beset by economic and security challenges.
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US sanctions Belarus’ election officials, president’s plane
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