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Lagos air crash: 'Engine failure caused Nigeria accident'
Published: 13th Jul 2012 15:04:18
Dual engine failure caused a plane to crash in the Nigeria city of Lagos last month, killing more than 150 people, investigators have said.
The crew of the Dana Air flight first experienced problems with their throttles, Nigeria's Accident Investigation Board report said.
Speculation that contaminated fuel had affected the engines was unfounded, though more tests are to be done.
The report also revealed that one of the aircraft's black boxes melted.
The commercial aircraft was flying from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to Lagos when it crashed into a printing works and residential buildings in Iju, a busy suburb north of the airport, and burst into flames.
All 153 people on board and 10 on the ground died, AIB's preliminary report into the accident said.
• Seven major air crashes since 1992
• Security in the sector was revamped in 2007
• All airlines had to re-capitalise or be grounded, in an effort to ensure better safety
• In August 2010, the US gave Nigeria its top safety rating, allowing its domestic carriers to fly directly to America
• Lagos's Murtala Muhammed Airport is a major transport hub for West Africa, with 2.3 million passengers passing through it in 2009
• Nigeria's government says it now has full radar coverage of the entire country
The aeroplane's cockpit voice recorder captured 31 minutes of conversation between the pilots, the report said.
About half an hour before the crash at 15:15 GMT, the crew discussed a problem with the engine indicator light and the engine throttle setting, it said.
As the plane was preparing to land and the landing gear and flaps were extending, the engines failed.
"We just lost everything. We lost an engine. I lost both engines," the report quotes the captain as saying at 15:43.
The flight data recorder was found by investigators but the digital tape in its memory "succumbed to the post crash fire and melted, consequently no data could be recovered", the report said.
Although Nigeria's air safety record has improved in recent years, the country has a history of major passenger plane crashes - this is the fourth crash in the last decade in which more than 100 people were killed.
Lagos airport is a major hub for West Africa and saw 2.3 million passengers pass through it in 2009, according to the most recent statistics provided by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria.
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BBC News, 2012. Lagos air crash: 'Engine failure caused Nigeria accident'. [Online] (Updated 13 Jul 2012)Available at: http://www.ukwirednews.com/news.php/1440427-Lagos-air-crash-Engine-failure-caused-Nigeria-accident [Accessed 26th May 2013]
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