What the records say
- When
- 29 Oct 2006
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 9.20° N, 7.18° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 96
- Injured
- 9
ADC Airlines Flight 053
2006 aviation accident
ADC Airlines Flight 053 (ADK053) was a scheduled passenger flight operated by ADC Airlines from Nigeria's capital of Abuja to Sokoto. On 29 October 2006, the Boeing 737-200 crashed onto a corn field shortly after take-off from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, killing 96 out of 105 people on board.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ADC Flight 53, a Nigerian Boeing 737 airliner carrying more than 100 passengers, crashes near Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ナイジェリアの首都アブジャ郊外にあるンナムディ・アジキウェ国際空港から同国の北部にあるソコトに向かう予定だったADC航空53便(ボーイング737)が離陸直後に墜落し、乗員乗客105人中96人が死亡した(ADC航空53便墜落事故)。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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