Chronicle of Major Plane Crashes
There have been recurrence of plane crashes in the country
since the first recorded incident, which happened on January 22, 1973, Royal
Jordanian Airlines flight 707 carrying 171 Nigerian Muslims returning from
Mecca and 5 crewmen died in crash in Kano, Nigeria. Though air transportation
is seen as the fastest and safest of the three forms of transportation; water,
land and air, but it is not short of its disasters. Enumerated below is a
chronicle of major plane crashes in Nigeria.
March 1, 1978
Nigeria Airways F28-1000 crashes in Kano killing 16.
June 24, 1995
Harka Air Services Tupolev 34 crashes on landing in Lagos
killing 16 people.
November 13, 1995
Nigeria Airways Boeing 737-2F9 crashes on landing in Kaduna
killing 9 persons.
November 7, 1996
A Nigerian ADC (Aviation Development Corporation) Airline
Boeing 727-231 flying from Port Harcourt to Lagos with 142 passengers and 9
crew members crashed on landing, plunging into a lagoon with all on board
killed.
May 4, 2002
Nigerian EAS Airlines' BAC 1-11-500 with 105 people on board
crashed and burst into flames in a poor, densely populated suburb of Kano. 76
persons on board died, including 72 on the ground bringing it to a total 148
dead.
October 22, 2005
A Nigerian Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 airliner with 117
people on board crashed and disintegrates in flames shortly after take-off from
Lagos. All on board killed.
December 10, 2005
A Nigerian Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in Port Harcourt,
killing all 103 on board. Most on board were school children going home for
Christmas, including Pastor Bimbo Odukoya.
September 17, 2006
A Nigerian 18-seater Dornier 228 Air Force transport plane,
carrying 15 senior army officers and three crew members crashed leaving only
three survivors that sustained serious injuries.
March 14, 2012
A helicopter conveying the newly promoted Deputy Inspector
General of Police, Haruna John, with three other senior police officers crashed
in Jos. The Police helicopter was to convey the officers from Jos to Abuja, and
took off from the Jos prison field. However, after one and half kilometer of
flight, it crashed into a house where the occupants were said to have escaped
before the planed finally crash landed. Haruna John died in the crash.
June 2, 2012
A Nigerian cargo plane, attempting to take off from the
Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana, killing 10 people and injuring an
unspecified number of others. The plane smashed through the airport's fence
before slamming into cars and a bus loaded with passengers on a nearby street.
June 3, 2012
Dana Air flight 9J-997 which took off from Abuja
International Airport to Lagos crashed in Iju, Agege, a busy suburb of Lagos
State killing all 153 passengers including crew members and 69 persons on
ground. The plane destroyed two 3-storey building, uncompleted building and a
church building before burying itself inside a warehouse.
October 25 2012
December 15 2012
Governor Patrick Yakowa of Kaduna State, General Andrew
Azazi (Former National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan), Dadas
Tsoho, Azazi's Orderly, the Pilot and his Co-Pilot died in a Naval Helicopter
fatal crash at Ogbia Creek when they were returning to Yenagoa, the Bayelsa
State Capital, from the funeral of Obereba Douglas (Father of Douglas Oronto,
Special Adviser to the President on Research and Documentation) in Nembe Area,
Bayelsa State. Deputy Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero has been sworn in as the
new Governor.
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