NIGERIA: Nigerian airliner with 117 people aboard totally destroyed in a crash shortly after take-off from Lagos

Record ID: 236495

  • Title: NIGERIA: Nigerian airliner with 117 people aboard totally destroyed in a crash shortly after take-off from Lagos
  • Date: 24th October 2005
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF PASSENGERS SEATED IN TERMINAL
  • Embargoed: 8th November 2005 12:00
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  • Location: Nigeria
  • Country: Nigeria
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVADB0L5MPGEV2BIUI77XVNYCJU9
  • Story Text: A Nigerian airliner with 117 people aboard was totally destroyed in a crash shortly after take-off from Lagos and there were no signs of survivors,
    the Nigerian Red Cross said on Sunday (October 25).
    The plane disintegrated on impact with swampy earth near Lissa, about 30 kms (20 miles) north of Lagos, shortly after leaving for the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Saturday night.
    Dismembered, burned body parts and fuselage fragments were scattered across a large area of disturbed earth, according to images of the crash scene broadcast by the local AIT television station. A cheque for 948,000 naira ($7,200) from the evangelical Christian Deeper Life church was one of a number of personal papers found among the wreckage.<
    A Red Cross official at the site said there was a 70 foot (20 metre) crater where the main impact occurred.
    The Boeing 737-200 was believed to be carrying some senior Nigerian officials as well as a U.S. consular official and some European passengers.<
    Bellview Airlines flight 210 left at 8:45 p.m. (1945 GMT) and lost contact minutes later during a heavy electrical storm. It was carrying 111 passengers and six crew, the Federal Airport Authority said, updating an earlier figure of 110 passengers. The pilot made a distress call after take off.<
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