I think it is time that Africa grounded its fleets of aircraft except for maybe South Africa, it is like Russian Roulette flying on an African Airline. Africans should stay on the ground or fly on Western Airlines only!
How many more people have to die through mismanagement, poor maintenance, poorly trained pilots and general criminal transport control. We can not even build proper roads or railways, so we should keep out of the air and leave it to developed countries

Those poor people and their families, yet another old plane crashes that should have retired years before

Aero contractors i've heard nothing but good things about, personally.

Then again, my dad tells me that Dana was also supposed to be good

Na wa for this country

Dana is from Indian you goat.

imho, Aero are the best, flew with them recently , hitchless, smooth flights with a most professional team.

Isn't this premature? Planes crash all the time, we can only pray they are not as fatal as this.

Besides, there are things going on in Nigeria that suggest this may have to do with sabotage.

Not that we are where we should be, but we need to stop heaping rubbish on anything African around here.

Thor: I think it is time that Africa grounded its fleets of aircraft except for maybe South Africa, it is like Russian Roulette flying on an African Airline. Africans should stay on the ground or fly on Western Airlines only!
How many more people have to die through mismanagement, poor maintenance, poorly trained pilots and general criminal transport control. We can not even build proper roads or railways, so we should keep out of the air and leave it to developed countries

Those poor people and their families, yet another old plane crashes that should have retired years before

Planes don't crash as frequently in other places as in Nigeria, I reckon.

This one now. Wasn't there another one like 3, 4 years ago?

The rate seems to be higher in Nigeria than elsewhere..

koruji: Isn't this premature? Planes crash all the time, we can only pray they are not as fatal as this.

Besides, there are things going on in Nigeria that suggest this may have to do with sabotage.

Not that we are where we should be, but we need to stop heaping rubbish on anything African around here.

let us pray we are not in for another rash of plane crashes

i don't remember the year, but it was in obj's tenure, and it was ushered in by bellview, then sosoliso, then another that i don't remember

we already had a ghastly preview with the mishap in ghana

the whole thing is a complete and shameful clusterfk - nothing on any nigerian channel other than the scroll bar - all updates are via cnn

if investigated by a serious body, i'm sure you will find the crash was avoidable

more of the usual skirting of regulations with our authorities more focused on settlement than safety

expect a lot of hot air from our placebo placeholder political appointee fuel importer aviation ministrel

Africa accounts for only about 4% of global air traffic, its accident rate is 25%, which is six times worse (less safe) than the average world rate

African Air Disaster Timeline, Major Crashes during the past 10 years!

2012
3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.

2011
26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.

8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.

2010
12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.

25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.

2008
2 May: South Sudan's defence minister is among 22 people killed after engine trouble causes a plane carrying a military delegation to crash about 400km (250 miles) west of Juba.

15 April: Some 40 people die when a DC-9 skids off the runway while attempting to take off in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma during heavy rain, smashing through a wall and into a busy residential area.


2007
5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.

2005
10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.

22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.

16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.

2003
25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.

8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.

8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.

6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.

The OP must be the dumbest guy ever..

Thor: Africa accounts for only about 4% of global air traffic, its accident rate is 25%, which is six times worse (less safe) than the average world rate

Thanks for those #s. But how are you defining "accident rate", that it is 25% and the global average I guess is ~4%?