Lagos — Eyewitnesses have told Daily Trust that a young girl was pulled out of the wreckage of the Dana aircraft that crashed in Lagos alive.
A commercial aircraft belonging to Dana Air heading to Abuja on a local flight crashed in densely populated residential area in the Iju/Shaga area of Lagos less than five minutes from Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos.
Several eyewitnesses, including a rescue worker, confirmed the story of the young survivor. Though her nationality and other details about her are not yet known, the eye witnesses said she was white. She was also said to have been badly wounded and was immediately rushed off for medical attention.
Initial reports quoting the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority said it was unlikely any of the 153 passengers on board had survived the crash. There are also believed to be some casualties on the ground. The two-storey building that the plane crashed into reportedly accommodates a church.
"It was a Dana (airline) flight out of (the capital) Abuja to Lagos with about 153 people on board," Harold Demuren, head of NCAA said. "I don't believe there are any survivors."
The crowd around the crash site are also becoming agitated and it is becoming increasingly difficult for the security agents around the site to maintain the security cordon they had set up to keep the crowd from the site.
Earlier, a spokesman for Nigerian airline Dana confirmed one of its planes had crashed but could not immediately provide further details.
"I can confirm that one of our planes crashed today on the outskirts of Lagos," Tony Usidamen told AFP.
"We lost communication with the aircraft. We are going to issue an official statement."
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i sympatiz wit d berived, its truly sad, dnt realy nw who to blame,faan, shld realy do smthng, abt d state of aircrafts we cant continu acceptn scraps and losin more ppl, evrytim, pls do smthn
I pray to the lard to help us with all this problem will having in this country...From Oladapo.
God will is ever found that is y this small girl were found alife so let us all pray for the souls of our lose African, that God may rest their souls in peace.
In as much, as a staff can come out ( after the ghastly crash), and say that the aircraft was faulty, and was not supposed to fly, then the management of Dana airlines should be investigated and santioned accordingly. But does the bulk stop there??? Obviously NO. What ever excuses that are given, mechanical or human error, the Aviation industry should be probed, santioned and re constituted. It is not enough to have financial fines or punishements melted out to erring people, but to have a stiffer aviation laws and procedures in place.
There should be laws and procedures put in place. Commercial airlines and private ( Both military and presidential ) that flies, should be thoroughly scruntinized and certified fit to fly, before flying. Pilots too, should be thoroughly trained and fire fighting equipments should be placed on board in strategic places in the planes. A plane being big and heavy should also have steel cutting equipments that are funtional at all times, in place, so as to forestall the incident of Sunday, 3rd June, 2012.
Just imagine, a situation that assumming that Dana flight crash landed on a straight or flat surface, then lives would have been saved.But, because it imparted a couple of buildings and structues, that was the main cause of the explosion. ( Even though, the pilot has little or no control ) over where to steer the plane, in times of crisis, and crash landing where it landed was beyond His control, but i believe that assumming that this happened on a flat surface, it would only have injured passengers, and the plane would NOT have exploded. Even though, we still give thanks to God, it could have been worse, assumming that the plane had landed in a place like the airport.
This should teach us ( Nigerians) that our "shoddy", approach to matters that relate to national security and other spheres of life should be corrected and ammended. We take every thing for granted, and we never give it a thought, UNTIL lives have been lost. Even though, after the accident, we still take little or no steps to remedy the situation.
Crying wont solve anything. What we need is action. Its just a pity that Leadership and corruption has been our bane for so long, but we really need a president and more importantly, "Leaders" that has the interest of this country at heart.
This carelessness on our part has transformed into a ugly monster that is destroying the very foundation, that our ancestors have fought for, with their lives.
Though, am not a prophet of doom, but more stupid and careless accidents will still happen. This is just simply because of lack of preparedness on the part of the authorities in place, and because of the selfishness of high ranking officers and authorities that just steal from the national coffers with reckless abandon, and leave projects that need to be implemented uncared for , and left to rot.
One problem in this country, is that ( though we are brillant and sometimes implement and carry out required projects, but WE DONT HAVE A MAINTENANCE CULTURE)
It is well.
Oyebadejo Ayodeji
In as much, as a staff can come out ( after the ghastly crash), and say that the aircraft was faulty, and was not supposed to fly, then the management of Dana airlines should be investigated and santioned accordingly. But does the bulk stop there??? Obviously NO. What ever excuses that are given, mechanical or human error, the Aviation industry should be probed, santioned and re constituted. It is not enough to have financial fines or punishements melted out to erring people, but to have a stiffer aviation laws and procedures in place.
There should be laws and procedures put in place. Commercial airlines and private ( Both military and presidential ) that flies, should be thoroughly scruntinized and certified fit to fly, before flying. Pilots too, should be thoroughly trained and fire fighting equipments should be placed on board in strategic places in the planes. A plane being big and heavy should also have steel cutting equipments that are funtional at all times, in place, so as to forestall the incident of Sunday, 3rd June, 2012.
Just imagine, a situation that assumming that Dana flight crash landed on a straight or flat surface, then lives would have been saved.But, because it imparted a couple of buildings and structues, that was the main cause of the explosion. ( Even though, the pilot has little or no control ) over where to steer the plane, in times of crisis, and crash landing where it landed was beyond His control, but i believe that assumming that this happened on a flat surface, it would only have injured passengers, and the plane would NOT have exploded. Even though, we still give thanks to God, it could have been worse, assumming that the plane had landed in a place like the airport.
This should teach us ( Nigerians) that our "shoddy", approach to matters that relate to national security and other spheres of life should be corrected and ammended. We take every thing for granted, and we never give it a thought, UNTIL lives have been lost. Even though, after the accident, we still take little or no steps to remedy the situation.
Crying wont solve anything. What we need is action. Its just a pity that Leadership and corruption has been our bane for so long, but we really need a president and more importantly, "Leaders" that has the interest of this country at heart.
This carelessness on our part has transformed into a ugly monster that is destroying the very foundation, that our ancestors have fought for, with their lives.
Though, am not a prophet of doom, but more stupid and careless accidents will still happen. This is just simply because of lack of preparedness on the part of the authorities in place, and because of the selfishness of high ranking officers and authorities that just steal from the national coffers with reckless abandon, and leave projects that need to be implemented uncared for , and left to rot.
One problem in this country, is that ( though we are brillant and sometimes implement and carry out required projects, but WE DONT HAVE A MAINTENANCE CULTURE)
It is well.
Oyebadejo Ayodeji