Nigeria: Lagos-Akure-bound Associated Airline Plane Crash

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Published (Updated) on Thursday, October 3, 2013
The Lagos-Akure-bound private Aircraft owned by Associated Airlines was carrying 20 people including the body of the late governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Agagu when it crashed in Lagos on Thursday 3rd October 2013 minutes after take-off from Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Nigeria...
The Plane (Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia) with registration number SCD 361 took off at about 9:30 am (08:30 GMT) from the domestic terminal at Lagos’s Murtala Mohammed International Airport but crashed less than a minute after the take-off killing 13 persons on board while seven others survived. Among the survivors was the only son of Agagu, Feyi Agagu. The crashed occurred within Sahara Group tank farm, one of the aviation fuel companies at the airport. The plane rammed the perimeter fence of the international wing of the Airport. 
An engineer, Rasheed Olajide, who witnessed the air crash at the airport told Reuters that “the plane was making a lot of noise and appeared to make a maneuver to avoid a residential area before it came down. 
However, the casket containing the remains of Agagu was recovered by rescue agencies at the crash site..

Here are the names on the manifest:
 1.Feyi Agagu
2.Femi Akinsanya
3. Akintunde Joseph
4.Akeem Akintunde
5.Tunji Okusanya
6. Chijioke Duru
7. Kingsley Amaechi
8. Deji Afolabi
9. Mrs. A.O. Alabi
10. Deji Bernard
11. Deji Falae
12. Samson Hassan
13. Olatunji Okusanya
Crew members:
14. Capt. Yakubu
15. Flight officer Oyinlola
16. Engr. Soroh Ebiya
17. Flight dispatcher Ibrahim
18. Mr. Felix Latoya
19. Cabin attendant Owolabi
20. Cabin attendant Samson.

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