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Pilot Area => The Chat Room => Topic started by: KC135 on June 03, 2012, 16:50:08
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Updated at 12:40 p.m. ET:
More than 150 people were feared dead Sunday after a Dana Airlines passenger jet crashed into crashed into a two-story building in the Iju/Ishaga area of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, the country's aviation director said.
Harold Denuren, head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, told reporters the plane was heading from Lagos to Abuja in Nigeria with 153 passengers.
"I don't believe there are any survivors," Denuren said.
Condolences go to the families of these passengers on the plane & in the building...
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And yesterday
Cargo plane hits bus in Ghana airport crash The plane had been coming in to land when it overshot the runway, officials say.
A cargo plane has crash landed in Ghana's capital Accra, hitting a bus full of passengers, officials say.
Ten passengers on board the bus were reported to have been killed while all four crew members survived.
Local TV showed the heavily damaged Boeing 727 Allied Air plane lying across a road close to Kotoka International Airport.
Ghana's airport operator said the plane, which had flown from Lagos, Nigeria, overshot the runway.
It said in a statement that the four crew members were receiving treatment at an airport clinic.
"The aircraft collided with a minivan, resulting in 10 confirmed fatalities," the statement added.
Police and troops cordoned off the scene following the incident just after 19:00 GMT on Saturday.