I love history! Read this: HISTORY OF AIRCRASHES IN NIGERIA AND LIST OF AVIATION MINISTERS FROM 1999Olusegun Agagu (May 1999–February 2001);Kema Chikwe (February 2001–May 2003); IsaYuguda (July 2003–July 2005); BabalolaBorishade (July 2005–Nov 2006); Femi Fani-Kayode (November 2006–May 2007)Also check the history of plane crahses inNigeria.On June 4 1956 a British Overseas AirwaysCorperation (BOAC) four-engined Canadair C-4Argonaut airliner register G-ALHE crashed into aa tree on departure from Kano Airport, three ofthe seven crew members and 29 ofthe 38passengers were killed, and two crew and twopassengers sustained serious injuries.On November 20, 1969 Nigeria Airways BACVC10 crashed on landing, killing 87 people onboard.January 22, 1973, Royal Jordanian Airlines flight707 carrying 171 Nigerian Muslims returningfrom Mecca and five crewmen crashed in Kano,killing all on board.• March 1, 1978, Nigeria Airways F28-1000crashed in Kano, killing 16 people.• November 28, 1983, Nigeria AirwaysF28-1000 crashed near Enugu, killing 53 onboard.December 1988, Skypower Brandeironte aircraftovershot Ilorin Airport’s runway, killing allpassengers onboard.• February 24, 1990, a British Helicoptercrashed in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, killing all ninepeople on board.• May 21, 1991, A Cessna Citation 550 ofAshaka Cement, Hombe, crashed, killing allonboard.• June 26, 1991, An Okada Air Bac-11 crashedin Sokoto, killing three persons.8 September 26, 1992, Nigerian Air ForceAC-130 plane crashed minutes after take-offfrom Lagos. All 200 onboard perished.• June 24, 1995, Harka Air Services Tupolev 34crashed on landing in Lagos, killing16.•November 13, 1995, Nigeria Airways Boeing737-2F9 crashed on landing in Kaduna, killingnine.• January 17, 1996, Ibrahim Abacha, son of SaniAbacha, was killed in a plane crash.The group“United Front for Nigeria’s Liberation” (UFNL)claimed responsibility for the crash.• November 7, 1996, a Nigerian AviationDevelopment Corporation (ADC) Airline Boeing727-231 flying from Port Harcourt to Lagoswith 142 passengers and 9 crew memberscrashed on landing, plunging into the lagoonwith all onboard killed.• January 31, 1997, Sky Power Express AirwaysEmbraer 110PIA crashed on landing in Yola,killing five.• September 12, 1997, NAF Dornier 228-212 inNguru, Borno State ran into a ditchduringtake-off, none of the 10 occupants died.• January 5, 2000, SkyPower Express AirwaysBandeirante 110P1A crashed on landing inAbuja, killing 17.• October 26, 2000: Dornier Aircraftplungedinto a thick bush near the Niger Delta, sixoccupants injured.a• March 14, 2002, a helicopter belonging to theJoint Task Force (JTF) crashed in Kabong, Jos,killing all on-board including four senior policeofficers.• May 4, 2002, EAS Airlines’ BAC 1-11-500 with105 people on board crashed in a denselypopulated suburb of Kano, killing 76 on boardand 72 on the ground bringing total casualtiesto 148.•November 30, 2003, a Cargo aircraft of HydroCargo, Brussels, Belgium, crash-landed.• March 6, 2004, an Aenail spray aircraft withregistration number 5NBEF belonging toBerfieex Nigeria Ltd, crashed at theBauchiAirport.• July 26, 2004, Pan African Airlines’helicoptercrashed into the Atlantic Ocean in Eacraros,Delta State, killing four persons onboard.• December 29, 2004, a Boeing 727 ofChanchangi Airlines belly-landed atthe MMA.•December 29, 2004, a Kenya Airlines aircraftcrashed- landed at the MMA due togear fault.• January 28, 2005, a Nigeria Air Force fighterplane crashed into a farmland in Yar Kanya,Kano State.• February 25, 2005, ADC’s B73 aircraft had itstyre burnt while landing at Yola Airport.• March 27, 2005, a Boeing 737 belonging toBellview had one of its engines caught fire.• June 11/12, 2005, a Boeing 727-200 aircraftbelonging to the domestic Chachangi Airlinesovershot the runway at Murtala MuhammedAirport, Lagos while yet another overshot therunway at the airport in Jos in central Nigeria aday earlier.• June 24, 2005, a Russian aircraft belonging toHarka Air crash- landed at the MMA, all thepeople on board died• July 6, 2005, an Air France A330 planecrashed into a herd of cattle at PortHarcourtairport, sustaining serious damageand killingmany of the cows.• July 23, 2005, a Lufthansa aircraft crash-landed at Lagos airport and was badly damaged,but no life was lost.• October 22, 2005, a twin Engine Boeing 737,belonging to Bellview Airline crashed in LisaVillage, Ogun State and killed all the 117passengers on board.December 10, 2005, a Port Harcourt boundSosoliso Airlines flight 1145 crash-landed inPort Harcourt Airport, killing 109 passengersincluding 60 students of Jesuit Loyola CollegeAbuja.• September 17, 2006, an 18-seater Dornier 228Air Force transport plane, carrying 15 seniorarmy officers and three crewmembers crashedin Benue State, leaving only three survivors.• October 29, 2006, Aviation DevelopmentCorporation Airline Boeing 737 with 104 onboard crashed minutes after take-off fromAbuja’s airport. All but 6 perished in thedisaster.• November 10, 2006, a six-seater helicopterbelonging to Odengene Air Shuttle (OAS) crashedin Delta State, killing two people.•August 2, 2007, Bristow-owned helicoptercrashed inside ExxonMobil facility in PortHarcourt.• March 15, 2008, Beechcraft 1900Dplanemarked 5N-JAH, belonging to Wing Aviationcrashed in Cross River State. The wreckage wasnot found until six months after. All fourcrewmembers died.• March 8, 2011: HS-125 chartered aircraftcrashed in Bauchi. No casualty.•March 14, 2012, a helicopter conveying thenewly promoted Deputy Inspector General ofPolice, Haruna John, with three other seniorpolice officers crashed in Jos. The Policehelicopter was to convey the officers from Josto Abuja, and took off from the Jos prison field.• Sunday, June 3, 2012, the nation was throwninto mourning again as a Dana Airlines Flight 9J992 carrying 153 passengers on board crashedinto Iju-Ishaga, a densely populated residentialarea of Lagos, killing all passengerson board,•A Nigerian cargo plane, a day before, hadattempted to take off from the KotokaInternational Airport in Accra, Ghana, butcrashed on Saturday night, killing 10 people andinjuring an unspecified number of others.•Four months after, precisely October 25,governor of Taraba State, DanbabaSuntai andfive of his aides narrowly escaped death when aCessna 208 aircraft marked 5N-BMJand pilotedby Suntai, lost contact with the YolaControlTower 38 miles to landing, after leaving Jalingo,the Taraba State capital and crashed into a hillin Adamawa.• December 15, 2012, the nation was againthrown into mourning with the news of fourpersons dead, including Governor PatrickYakowa of Kaduna State and former NationalSecurity Adviser to the president, GeneralOwoeye Azazi. They were reportedly burnt in ahelicopter crash that occurred in the forest ofOkoroba community in Nembe local governmentof Bayelsa State.And yesterday, October 3rd 2013, an aircraftbelonging to the Associated Airlines conveyig thecorpse of former Ondo State governor crashed,minutes after take off at the local wing of theLagos Airport. The plane had 20 peopleonboard.
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