Flugzeugabsturz in Nigeria

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Nigeria: Flugzeug stürzt auf Wohngebiet 105 Menschen an Bord Kano/Nigeria.Ein nigerianisches Passagierflugzeug ist am Samstag auf ein dicht besiedeltes Wohnviertel der Stadt Kano im Norden des Landes gestürzt. Rundfunkberichten zufolge befanden sich 105 Menschen an Bord. Zunächst lagen keine offiziellen Angaben zu der Zahl der Opfer in der Maschine oder am Boden vor. Augenzeugen berichteten, sie hätten zunächst keine Überlebenden in den Trümmern entdeckt.

 

Fluggesellschaft EAS Airlines

 

Das Flugzeug gehört Medienberichten zufolge der privaten nigerianischen Fluggesellschaft EAS Airlines. Es stürzte rund einen Kilometer vom Flughafen der Stadt entfernt zu Boden. Es soll auf dem Weg von Kano in die Wirtschaftsmetropole Lagos gewesen sein. Der Absturz der Maschine verwandelte das Viertel Grammaja in ein Ruinenfeld. Ein Reporter der Nachrichtenagentur AP sah Bewohner, die in den Trümmern verzweifelt nach Überlebenden suchten, und die Leiche einer Frau, die geborgen wurde.

 

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The airliner hit a densely populated residential area, a spokesman for the Kano governor's office told CNN.

 

Ibrahim Ado said the EAS Airlines (Executive Airline Services) plane had just taken off from the Kano airport en route to Lagos in southwest Nigeria when it crashed in the neighbourhood of Gwammaja.

 

Reuters reported that 105 people were on board. But others were feared dead on the ground.

 

The crash left the Gwammaja district a ruin of smashed buildings and scattered plane parts, The Associated Press reported.

 

An AP reporter said he saw terrified, wailing neighbourhood residents combing the rubble, looking for survivors or dead.

 

Witnesses told Reuters that at least two survivors were taken from the wreckage of the BAC 1-11-500 aircraft, which crashed and caught fire.

 

Residents told Reuters that the plane hit a building, ploughed through two other buildings, came to a halt and then burst into flames.

 

Black smoke could be seen rising from the area of the crash, reports said.

 

"There is a massive mobilisation to evacuate residents of the area," a Gwammaja resident told Reuters. Firefighters and rescuers were on the scene, trying to pull survivors from the wreckage.

 

Because the crash occurred in a densely populated residential area, the casualty toll was thought likely to rise.

 

Air traffic controllers could not say at this stage what caused the disaster, Reuters said.

 

The last major Nigerian air crash occurred in November 1996, when a Nigerian Boeing 727 flying from Port Harcourt to Lagos crashed, killing all 142 passengers and nine crew members.

 

Nigeria deregulated its airline industry in the mid-1980s and many companies sprang up to challenge the monopoly of state carrier Nigeria Airways.

 

Concerns have been raised about the use of older aircraft used by the dozen or so local airline companies. Only last month the Nigerian government announced a ban on the use of aircraft older than 22 years, a move that triggered strong protests from private local airline operators.

 

EAS Airlines is one of several airliners servicing the country's domestic air routes. Between October 1998 and December 1999, the company took delivery of four BAC 1-11-500s.

 

Quelle: http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/05/04...lane/index.html

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