159 passengers may have perish in a crash in the Iju Ishaga area of Lagos , Nigeria . It seems that the plane — from a company called Dana Air — doss into a two - story apartment building just after taking off . Witnesses say it strike a power line , but there is no official cause yet . ( WARNING : STRONG image )
According to tweet and local blogs , witnesses are reporting bite people on the reason . The picture — seize by witnesses in the area using cellphones — show some dead bodies on the ground .
The airplane was an old McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with about 152 multitude on board , including rider and crew . The MD-83 — aka DC-9 - 83 — started to fell in 1984 , complete production in 1999 . It could stock 155 passengers while keeping a range of mountains of 2,504 maritime miles ( 2,881 miles , 4,636 kilometers ) .
There are no official casualty figures yet , according to Lagos emergency manager Femi Oke - Osanyinpolu , but it could be pretty eminent if you add the rider to the the great unwashed on the priming coat .
fire-eater — two firetrucks — and parking brake aesculapian team , admit 50 rescue mass , are already in the area essay to rescue potential survivors from the plane and on the ground .
An AP reporter says that there are seating scattered across the area . It seems the apartment edifice break down as the fireman were trying to put down the fiery fire and thousands of people looked from a space .
The fire is reasonably uncollectible , as the plane had just demand off from Lagos ’ drome and it was full of fuel .
It was en road to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja , Nigeria ’s Washington in the center of the country . Like Brasília in Brazil , Abuja is a plotted city work up to hold the country ’s administrative center from scraping . It became the official capital of the nation in 1991 , after construction set about in the 1980s . Lagos is still the expectant city in Nigeria .
There ’s no official cause for the crash yet , although witness say the plane score a ability line . If that ’s true , it must have been on its way of life down , since the runway is not stuffy enough to that part of the town . The conditions precondition were good and visibility was 10 + klick ( more than 6.2 mile ) .
Nigeria received a family 1 status by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2010 . That ’s their top safety rating , present to countries that can fly airplanes directly into US airspace . [ TondanandOpeyemi Blog , HuffPoandUSA Today ]
Update : Nigeria ’s aviation authorisation has officially confirmed that there are no survivors . 159 people were in the plane , including work party . The pilot communicated the pinch one arcminute before disappearing from air control ’s radio detection and ranging screens .
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