What the records say
- When
- 3 Jun 2012
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 6.58° N, 3.32° E
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 153
Dana Air Flight 0992
2012 passenger plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria
Dana Air Flight 0992 was a scheduled Nigerian domestic passenger flight from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport to Murtala Muhammed International Airport. On 3 June 2012, the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft crashed following a dual-engine failure, killing all 153 people on board and six on the ground. It remains the deadliest commercial airliner crash in Nigeria since the 1973 Kano air disaster.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Dana Air Flight 0992, on a flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria, suffered a dual-engine failure during its approach to Lagos where it crashed onto buildings,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Absturz einer Passagiermaschine der Dana Air kommen in Nigeria mindestens 153 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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