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Nigeria Plane Crash Kills 153: Officials

Dana Air flight hits 2-story building in Lagos

By the Associated Press

Posted Jun 3, 2012 10:48 AM CDT | Updated Jun 3, 2012 2:42 PM CDT

(AP) – A passenger plane crashed into a two-story building in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos today, killing all the passengers on board, an aviation official said. The Lagos state government said in a statement that 153 people were on the flight going from Abuja to Lagos. The plane crashed in a densely populated neighborhood near the airport. A spokesman for Nigeria's national emergency management agency said there were likely more casualties on the ground, but the number was unknown. Several thousand gathered at the site as firefighters tried to put out flames and carry out survivors.

A man using his cell phone stands near the wreckage of a crashed passenger plane in a neighborhood just north of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012.
A man using his cell phone stands near the wreckage of a crashed passenger plane in a neighborhood just north of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012.   (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
Onlookers stand on the tail wing of a crashed passenger plane in a neighborhood just north of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012.  The passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, government officials said. The Lagos state government...
Onlookers stand on the tail wing of a crashed passenger plane in a neighborhood just north of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The passenger plane carrying...   (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
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Deleted
Jun 3, 2012 9:44 PM CDT
Sad, but it may mean fewer Emails.
Shannonals
Jun 3, 2012 2:57 PM CDT
Sixteen percent of you noobs thought this was hilarious?!  Very sick.
Qsreed
Jun 3, 2012 12:08 PM CDT
Isn't this the third plane to crash in the last two days?

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