Dana Air Flight 992
| Dana Air Flight 992 | |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | double engine failure |
| place | Lagos , Nigeria |
| date | June 3, 2012 |
| Fatalities | 153 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Fatalities on the ground | 6th |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas MD-83 |
| operator | Dana Air |
| Mark | 5N RAM |
| Departure airport | Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport , Abuja , Nigeria |
| Destination airport | Lagos Airport , Lagos , Nigeria |
| Passengers | 147 |
| crew | 6th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
Dana Air flight 992 was a domestic flight of the Nigerian airline Dana Air from Abuja to Lagos . On June 3, 2012, the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashed on a densely populated area of Lagos. In the accident, all 153 occupants, 147 passengers and six crew members, as well as an additional six people on the ground were killed.
Aircraft
The aircraft involved in the accident was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 owned by the private Nigerian airline Dana Air. The aircraft was built in 1990 and since then had completed 60,000 flight hours with more than 35,000 flight cycles. A scheduled A-check had been carried out a few days beforehand .
Course of the accident
The aircraft was on a domestic flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria. There were serious engine problems no later than 16 minutes after take-off. Despite this, the pilots neither returned to the Abuja departure airport, nor did they make an emergency landing at one of the Akure, Ilorin or Ibadan airports on the way. Neither the emergency checklist was processed nor air traffic control was first informed. Finally, both engines no longer responded to thrust lever inputs. At 3:43 p.m. local time, the pilots declared the emergency approximately 11 NM (20 km) north of the airport . A loss of thrust was reported with the following failure of both engines. The crash site is at 6 ° 40 ′ N , 3 ° 19 ′ E , Popoola Street in the Iju-Ishaga district of Lagos. The Xinhua News Agency reported that at least 40 more people were killed.
Victim
Among the victims were the head of the Nigerian non-profit organization National Taxidermists Association (NTA) , Levi Ajuonuma, the director of Mainstreet Bank Shehu Saad Usman, Aikhomu Ehime, son of the former general and vice-president Augustus Aikhomu , the actress Hope Okeke, Amina Bugaje , Chairman of L&M Companies and son of former Minister Usman Bugaje , and State Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Alhaji Ibrahim Damcida. In addition, the German Society for International Cooperation in Eschborn reported that two of its employees were sitting in the accident machine.
Web links
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Accident Investigation Bureau
- (EN) " Interim Statement " ( Archive ( Memento from August 26, 2014 on WebCite )) - June 3, 2012
- (EN) " Second Interim Statement " ( Archive ( Memento from August 26, 2014 on WebCite )) - June 3, 2014
- Aircraft accident data and report DC-9-83 5N-RAM on the Aviation Safety Network , accessed April 1, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Crash: Dana MD83 at Lagos on Jun 3rd 2012, following Mayday call collided with power line on approach. The Aviation Herald of June 3, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Flightglobal: Crashed Dana MD-83 crew feared reprisal over emergency (in English), accessed on March 14, 2017
- ↑ National Mirror 170 the as Dana Air crashes in Lagos ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , OLUSEGUN KOIKI, June 4, 2012
- ↑ Nigeria mourns over 193 people killed in worst plane crash . In: Xinhua . SINA News Agency. June 4, 2012. Retrieved June 4, 2012.
- ↑ Levi Ajuonuma, others killed in Lagos plane crash. Vanguard Nigeria, June 4, 2012; Retrieved June 4, 2012 .
- ↑ UPDATED: Dana Air Flight 9J-992-Air Passengers List. (No longer available online.) Sahara Reporters, June 4, 2012, archived from the original June 5, 2012 ; Retrieved June 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Victims Of Dana Crash: NNPC Spokesman Levi Ajuonuma, Northern Elder Ibrahim Damcida, son of late Rear Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, Ehime. Naija 247 News, June 4, 2012, accessed June 4, 2012 .
- ↑ Tragic plane crash in Nigeria. (No longer available online.) Giz.de, June 4, 2012, archived from the original on January 22, 2013 ; Retrieved June 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
