The first plane crash in
Nigeria occurred on November 20, 1969 when a government-owned DC-10
aircraft on a flight from London crash-landed in Lagos. It killed and
all 87 passengers and crew on board. Since that tragic incident, the
country has experienced many more crashes resulting in the loss over a
thousand lives. The other plane crashes includes a Boeing 707 plane that crashed in Kano in 1973. It killed 171 Nigerian Muslims returning from Mecca and 5 crewmen died in crash. In March 1978 a former-28 Nigeria Airways crashed in Kano, 16 people died in the crash.
December 3, 1988, Nigeria Airways Forker-28 crashed in Enugu, killing 103 passengers while in December 1988,a Skypower Brandeironte aircraft overshot Ilorin Airport runway and killed all the passengers on board.
Similarly on February 24, 1991 a British Helicopter crashed in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, killing all nine people on board. While a Cessna Citation..........Full Story
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