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Nigeria jet crash leaves 103 dead Some 75 schoolchildren are feared to be among 103 people thought to have died on a plane that crashed in Nigeria. Seven survivors are said to have escaped the burning wreckage of the plane, which crashed at Port Harcourt. The plane was bringing passengers from the capital Abuja on Saturday when it overshot the runway during an electrical storm and burst into flames. "I saw the plane break into three and then fire engulfed it and it started burning," an airport worker said. Workers described charred bodies and pieces of the wrecked plane strewn around the disaster site. Lightning The DC-9, owned by the private Sosoliso Airlines, was carrying 75 school children, aged 12-16, home for the Christmas holidays, staff at the Loyola Jesuit school in Abuja said. The cause of the crash is not known, but civil aviation spokesman Samuel Adurogboye said the aircraft "ran into bad weather". Witnesses described flashes of lightning as the plane came into land. NIGERIA PLANE CRASHES October 2005: Bellview Airlines plane crashes near the village of Lissa, Ogun state, killing 117 people May 2002: Plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground November 1996: 142 people die when Boeing 727 owned by Nigeria's ADC airline plunges into lagoon 85km (55 miles) from Lagos September 1992: 158 people are killed when military transport plane goes down near Lagos Air disasters timeline "Almost everyone was killed. There was a lot of flames," an airport official said. "There were many students onboard, returning for the holidays." Mr Adurogboye said seven people were rescued. "They were breathing and were taken to hospital. They are responding to treatment," he said. He did not say if they were passengers or crew members. Safety concerns A Boeing 737 aircraft crashed in October shortly after take-off from the commercial capital Lagos, killing all 117 people on board. The flight recorders from that plane were never found. President Olusegun Obasanjo had instructed his aviation minister to plug any loopholes to ensure airline safety. After the latest disaster, Femi Fani-Kayode, a spokesman for Mr Obasanjo, said: "It is a national tragedy for us. We need to take all the necessary measures to make sure this sort of thing stops happening." Asked whether this raised questions about air safety in Nigeria, he said: "Of course, people would be concerned, in view of the circumstances." Correspondents say Nigeria's aviation industry has grown rapidly in recent years, but many aircraft are elderly and there have been several fatal crashes. However, Sosoliso was regarded as one of the safer domestic Nigerian airlines.

Nigeria plane crash kills 103 * * Email * Print * Normal font * Large font December 11, 2005 - 8:10PM Page 1 of 2 AdvertisementAdvertisement Relatives of some of the 103 people killed in a plane crash in Nigeria on Saturday crowded hospital mortuaries seeking the bodies of their loved ones on Sunday morning. The Sosoliso Airlines flight on its way from the capital Abuja to the southern oil city of Port Harcourt crashed during a storm and burst into flames at the airport, killing all but seven of the people on board. More than 50 of the people on board were schoolchildren from a Catholic college in Abuja on their way home for the Christmas break, according to the Abuja archbishop's secretary. Also among the people who died in the crash were a Frenchman and an American woman working for the relief organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the head of mission for MSF France in Nigeria said. At the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, about 20 badly burnt bodies were laid out on the dirt floor of the mortuary, a room with no refrigeration or air-conditioning. Hospital staff sprinkled disinfectant on the bodies, most of whom were recognisable, and tagged them with numbers. "I am angry. I have been here since 6am. All I want is to take the body of my elder sister. Give her to me," cried one woman among hundreds who were pleading to take bodies away. Many were clutching photographs of their dead relatives. Hospital authorities said they could not release any bodies until full identification had been carried out, and five armed police were stationed at the door of the mortuary. One of the survivors, a woman, was being treated in a ward in the same hospital. Most of her body was covered in bandages and her face looked badly burnt. On Saturday, confusing reports emerged about what exactly happened to the DC9 aircraft as it was trying to land. Civil aviation officials said it missed the runway, but witnesses said they saw it land on the tarmac and break into pieces. "I was at the helipad when the plane came in ... there was thunder ... I saw the plane break into three and then fire engulfed it and it started burning," said an unnamed airport worker. Officials said 60 bodies were recovered in daylight hours. A dozen ambulances sped up and down the runway, taking dead bodies covered in sheets to hospitals and mortuaries. Police stopped reporters from getting close to the wreckage. "It's another national tragedy," Information Minister Frank Nweke said on state television. There was no official word on the cause of the crash.

117 killed in Nigeria plane crash Sunday, October 23, 2005 Posted: 2220 GMT (0620 HKT) story.nigeriacrsh.jpg First images from the site showed debris strewn over a wide area. Image: RELATED . Map: Crash site . A chronology of disasters in Nigeria . Obasanjo's wife dies in hospital YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Nigeria The Boeing Company Air Transportation Disasters and Accidents or Create Your Own Manage Alerts | What Is This? LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- All 117 people aboard a passenger jet that crashed shortly after take-off from Lagos are dead, including several high-level Nigerian officials, the government said Sunday. The identities of the officials were not released, pending notification of relatives. "The Federal Government announces with regret the unfortunate air crash of Bellview Airlines ... which resulted in the loss of life of all passengers and crew on board," a government statement released late on Sunday said, according to Reuters news service. Dismembered and burned body parts, fuselage fragments and engine parts were strewn over an area the size of a football field near the village of Lissa, about 30 km (20 miles) north of Lagos. "The aircraft has crashed and it is a total loss. We can't even see a whole human body," Reuters reports a senior police official at the scene as saying. Video from the crash site showed smoldering wreckage scattered over a rocky hillside. A Red Cross official at the site said there was a 70 foot (20 meter) crater where the main impact occurred, Reuters said. There were 111 passengers and six crew members on board, according to Bellview Airlines. The plane was headed to the Nigerian capital of Abuja when it crashed, officials said. The cause of the crash was being investigated. The pilot of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 pilot issued a distress call just before the control tower lost sight of the plane, about three minutes after takeoff, officials said. The plane was missing for hours before the wreckage was found shortly after dawn. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria scrambled two helicopters to search for the jet. Relatives of those on board also chartered a helicopter, and search teams were dispatched. The twin-engine Boeing 737 left Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos at 7 p.m. (6 p.m. GMT) Saturday as Flight 210 en route to Abuja -- a trip that should have taken about 50 minutes. Several high-level Nigerian officials were believed to be on board the privately owned jet, the office of President Olusegun Obasanjo told CNN. They were headed to Abuja for a meeting. Reuters said the plane was believed to be carrying a U.S. consular official and some European passengers as well. Bellview is a Nigerian airline popular with expatriates living in the West African nation and has been operating for about 10 years with no record of any incidents. A storm was passing through Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, about the time the flight left, CNN's Africa Correspondent Jeff Koinange reported. There were widespread rains and thunderstorms around the southwestern corner of Nigeria, particularly near Lagos to Ibadan, CNN's meteorologist Mari Ramos said. The normally bustling airport in Lagos was quiet Sunday with family members of passengers waiting for news of rescue efforts. President Obasanjo called on the country's people to pray for the passengers and their families, officials said. Obasanjo's office said in a statement that the president was personally overseeing search and rescue operations. Meanwhile, Obasanjo's wife, Stella Obasanjo, died Sunday at a hospital in Spain, officials said. She had traveled to Spain to undergo surgery and died from complications resulting from that surgery.