LAGOS (AFP) – Rescuers recovered burnt human remains as investigators probed for clues Monday after a plane slammed into a Lagos neighbourhood, with all 153 on board killed and more feared dead on the ground. Police fired tear gas at a surging crowd seeking to get a look at the crash site at one point on […]

LAGOS (AFP) – Nigerian police fired tear gas on Monday as a crowd surged at the site of a devastating plane crash in the country’s largest city of Lagos that killed all 153 people on board. A crowd trying to get a look at the wreckage sought to break though a police barricade in one […]

The pilot of yesterday’s Dana Airlines commercial aircraft that crashed at Iju, Lagos, was an American, a CNN report has said. According to the report, the pilot of the ill-fated flight which claimed about 170 lives, radioed that the plane was having trouble just minutes earlier, an airline official told CNN on Monday. Meanwhile search […]

Rescue workers have so far pulled at least 62 bodies from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Lagos, an official said as searches pressed on Monday at the site of the devastation

WORDS of condolence, commiseration and comfort poured forth from prominent Nigerians and aviation stakeholders, yesterday, as news of the crash of the Dana Air plane settled on the country.