EAS Airlines Flight 4226

When

4 May 2002

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

6.45° N, 3.40° E

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

71

Injured

0

2002 aviation accident

EAS Airlines Flight 4226 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Kano to Lagos, Nigeria. On 4 May 2002, the aircraft operating the flight overran the runway on its' takeoff roll and crashed into Gwammaja Quarters, a primarily Muslim densely populated residential area, located approximately three kilometres from the airport.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в пригороде Кано потерпел катастрофу BAC 1-11-525FT компании EAS Airlines”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ナイジェリアにあるマラム・アミヌ・カノ国際空港からムルタラ・モハンマド国際空港に向かう予定だったEAS航空 4226便(BAC 1-11)が離陸時のエンジン故障によって離陸から3分後に住宅地に墜落した。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page