Another Aircraft down in Nigeria

bits44 · Post by **bits44** » 10 Dec 2005, 18:20

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4517024.stm

Details lacking!

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 10 Dec 2005, 18:53

apparently a 737 from Sosoliso, on a charter flight

http://www.sosolisoairline.com

(no IATA company, ICAO code is OSL)

details about the incident are now constantly available on http://news.google.com

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 10 Dec 2005, 18:59

Do they fly the B737 ?

I thought the crash was a DC-9 or MD80 plane ??

What a terrible week in aviation again.

May they all RIP

Chris

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 10 Dec 2005, 19:23

BBC says it's a 737, other sources say it's a 727.

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 10 Dec 2005, 19:30

and VRT says it's an MD-80.

And according to A.net it's either DC-9 or MD-80

Quite some confusion...

Chris

LX-LGX · Post by **LX-LGX** » 10 Dec 2005, 19:44

It was a DC-9:

Sam Adurogboye, a spokesman for the Nigerian civil aviation authority, said the Sosoliso Airlines flight from Abuja was carrying 103 passengers and seven crew when it missed the runway on landing and burst into flames. Mr Adurogboye said 103 people had died and seven people had been taken to hospital. The cause of the crash was unknown but the official said the plane, a DC-9, had run into bad weather.

source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... altop.html

Avro · Post by **Avro** » 10 Dec 2005, 19:49

Thanks for confirmation

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 10 Dec 2005, 21:14

On the VRT news this evening they spoke over an MD-81. But I'm glad LX-LGX gave us the confirmation.

regi · Post by **regi** » 11 Dec 2005, 18:17

and full of children, going home for Christmas.
Probably some UK children on board as well. Some nigerian families send their boys to Nigerian private schools to get tougher education.

vc-10 · Post by **vc-10** » 11 Dec 2005, 18:57

RIP. But apparently some of those planes don't get maintained for about a year...

Iluv346 · Post by **Iluv346** » 12 Dec 2005, 09:13

Sosoliso Limited, the sole operator of Sosoliso Airlines was established in 1994 as a wholly Nigerian owned company, says the African website This Day Online.
Sosoliso Airlines started scheduled flights as a domestic airline in July 26, 2000 with a single Boeing 727, in technical partnership with JAT,Yugoslav National Airlines. As the first airline in the country, Sosoliso introduced a mobile phone reservation system. The remaining fleet after the crash is 2 McDonnell Douglas DC-9s and 2 MD-81/MD-82.

www.airliners.net/open.file/885791/M/

an-148 · Post by **an-148** » 12 Dec 2005, 17:22

@ VC10
I have difficulties to believe there could be a lack of maintainance (in THIS case, because:
-wet-lease from JAT, JAT maintainance, JAT crew!
(JAT is wellknown for perfect maintainance of her planes, also those requiring more of it because older design)

Aerocroatia · Post by **Aerocroatia** » 12 Dec 2005, 23:01

JAT stopped maintainance and crew supplies in Sosoliso one or two years ago when it was fully taken over with Sosoliso.

an-148 · Post by **an-148** » 13 Dec 2005, 08:42

@aerocroatia
Thanks for info
Hvala

5Y-KQV · Post by **5Y-KQV** » 13 Dec 2005, 09:05

Media reports in ACC indicate that the aircraft was struck by lightning and may have been on fire before it came down (I can't confirm this) but it indicated witnesses saying the pilot did a good job to bring the plane at least to the airport.

RIP to all on board, especially the 74 children who were returning home on holiday.

Cheers,

Walter

JAT_boy_BEG · Post by **JAT_boy_BEG** » 17 Dec 2005, 00:42

JAT had sold the DC9-30 to a Nigerian based airline, Sosoliso Airlines, back in 2002 as the aircraft didn't meet the European standards and was not allowed to fly.

The 32 yer old aircraft was sold due to the loud noise the aircrafts jet engines produced, thus being banned in the EU.

The crash killed 107 people onboard, most of them being school children flying home for the holidays.

While the plane was with JAT, it carried the registration of YU-AJH. The plane was kept in poor condition in its final years. JAT had the plane for 27 years, being in the JAT fleet in Feburary 1973. JAT mechanics were maintaining the plane in Nigeria untill 2004. The airline, Sosoliso Airlines had bought 3 of the DC9-30 aircraft from JAT. The DC9-30 was re-registered to 5N-BFD. The airline was also leased to Bellview Airlines, another Nigerian company, back in 1992, while JAT was restricted to only domestic routes.

RIP to all those died

RIP YU-AJH / 5N-BFD

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