NIGERIA: SITE OF PRESIDENTIAL PLANE CRASH IN WHICH 28 YEAR OLD IBRAHIM ABACHA, SON OF NIGERIAN RULER GENERAL SANI ABACHA AND 13 OTHERS WERE KILLED

Record ID: 238119

  • Title: NIGERIA: SITE OF PRESIDENTIAL PLANE CRASH IN WHICH 28 YEAR OLD IBRAHIM ABACHA, SON OF NIGERIAN RULER GENERAL SANI ABACHA AND 13 OTHERS WERE KILLED
  • Date: 19th January 1996
  • Summary: KANO AIRPORT, DAUSAYI VILLAGE NEAR KANO, NIGERIA (19, JANUARY 1996) RTV - ACCESS ALL 1. AERIALS KANO 0.06 2. GV KANO AIRPORT 0.15 3. GVS ROAD TO DAUSAYI VILLAGE, CRASH SCENE 0.23 4. GV MUD HUT AT VILLAGE ENTRANCE PAN ALONG MUD WALL 0.32 5. GV AVIATION INSPECTORS AROUND CRASH SITE 0.45 6. SCUS WRECKAGE OF HAKER SIDDELEY 125 AIRCRAFT AND AVIATION INSPECTORS 0.52 7. GV VILLAGERS AROUND WRECKAGE 0.57 8. SCU ALHAJI ABBA GAUSAYI, VILLAGE HEADMAN, SAYING THAT POLICE OFFICERS REPORTED TO THE FIRE BRIGADE AND THE FIRE BRIGADE CAME DOWN. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND EIGHT AND THE FIRE BRIGADE ARRIVED AROUND NINE (ENGLISH) 1.19 9. GV MORE WRECKAGE WITH PLANE NUMBER 1.27 10. GV CHARRED WRECKAGE SHOWING PART OF PRESIDENTIAL INSIGNIA 1.31 11. GV NOSE CONE 1.37 12. GV WING BEING POINTED OUT 1.55 13. GV WRECKAGE BY FOOT OF TREE 1.57 14. GV/CUS WRECKAGE OUTSIDE MUD HUT 2.09 15. SVS MOTOR SCOOTER AND DONKEY PASS BY 2.18 16. GV EXTERIOR OF ABACHA RESIDENCE IN KANO 2.31 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 3rd February 1996 12:00
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  • Location: DAUSAYI VILLAGE, NEAR KANO, NIGERIA
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  • Country: Nigeria
  • Reuters ID: LVAA0I9TULH5MKPR5EFGBLN8PPQK
  • Story Text: Nigeria has formally set up a board of inquiry into the crash of a Presidential plane in January which killed the son of military ruler General Sani Abacha.

    An official statement in the capital Abuja said the 11-member all-military board was headed by Air Vice-Marshall J.Y. Kontagora, commander of the air force training wing and a member of the Provisional Ruling Council.

    National Security Adviser Ismaila Gwarzo, who inaugurated the board of inquiry, said it had two weeks to complete its assignment.

    The British-made Hawker Siddeley 125 had been travelling from Lagos to Abacha's northern hometown Kano when it crashed, killing 28-year-old Ibrahim Abacha and 13 others.

    A previously unknown group calling itself United Front for Nigeria's Liberation claimed it sabotaged the plane to step up a campaign to topple Abacha. The claim has not been independently verified.

    Opposition groups have dissociated themselves from the front and offered Abacha their sympathies.

    Nigeria has been in crisis since June 1993 when the army annulled a presidential election that was to end a long period of military rule and restore democracy.


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