There has been information that a light plane, probably on test
drive, crash landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport,
Lagos this morning.
NEMA has confirmed that at
least two people died in the crash. Several others feared
injured.
According to latest
reports, a 30-seat Associated Airline jet flying to Akure, Ondo was carrying
passengers heading for the burial of former Ondo State governor, Olusegun
Agagu, a spokesman for the Nigerian Airspace Management
Agency told AFP.
The plane took off and
immediately nose-dived into a building in the area.
The crash occurred at the local wing
of the airport close to the section were JET-A1, plane fuel, is stored.
Fire
service officials were seen evacuating the occupants of the plane
“There’s a lot of smoke coming from
the runway, but we can’t get access to it. There are fire-fighters rushing to
the scene,” Rasaki Rhakod, who runs a car service around the
airport, told Reuters by telephone.
The
spokesman of the Nigeria aviation agencies, Yakubu Datti, asked
for more time to get details of the incident.
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