ADC Airlines Flight 53
| Occurrence summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | 29 October 2006 |
| Summary | Pilot error, windshear |
| Site | Abuja, Nigeria |
| Passengers | 105 |
| Crew | 5 |
| Injuries (non-fatal) | 9 |
| Fatalities | 97 (including one on ground) |
| Survivors | 9 |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-2B7 |
| Operator | ADC Airlines |
| Registration | 5N-BFK |
Aviation Development Company Airlines (ADC) Flight 53 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by ADC Airlines that crashed on 29 October 2006 shortly after take-off from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, at 11:30am local time.[1] Immediately after takeoff from Abuja, the Boeing 737 contacted the ground, broke up and caught fire in a corn field.[1] The flight carried 105 passengers and 5 crew.[1][2] Muhammadu Maccido, the Sultan of Sokoto and spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims, the sultan's son, Senator Badamasi Maccido, Dr Nnennia Mgbor, the first ever female West African E.N.T. surgeon, and Abdulrahman Shehu Shagari, son of former president Shehu Shagari, were on the passenger list.[3] Nine people survived, among those the 3 daughters of Ibrahim Idris, governor of Kogi.[4]
The plane was heading for the northern state of Sokoto. The crash sparked intense national protest to improve the nation's aviation sector. It is the direct cause for the change of the minister of aviation and the complete change to its aviation sector. This was the eleventh Nigerian airliner crash since 1995, bringing the death toll to more than 500 people.[2] The previous crash involving ADC happened on 7 November 1996; 143 people were killed when a Boeing 727 went down near Ejirin, losing control after taking evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision.[5]
President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, faced with pressure to remove Babalola Borishade, the then Minister of Aviation, transferred Borishade to another department.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 leader among those killed in Nigerian plane crash, CNN
- ↑ Nigerian Jet Crashes, 98 Feared Dead, CBS KYW-TV
- ↑ A SURVIVOR of Sunday’s ADC plane crash initially counted among the dead is alive and kicking
- ↑ ASN report on 1996 crash
- ↑ "Nightmare in Nigeria: How Blunders and Neglect Stoked an African Air Tragedy." The Wall Street Journal. 1 October 2007. Retrieved on 10 January 2009.
Further reading
- "Nigerian sultan among crash dead" (Archive). BBC. Sunday 29 October 2006.
- Polgreen, Linda. "Jet Crashes in Nigeria, Killing 98." The New York Times. October 29, 2006.
External links
- Final report: "Report on the Accident to ADC Airlines, Boeing 737-2B7 Registration 5N-BFK at Tungar Madaki,Abuja on 29th October, 2006" (Archive). Accident Investigation Bureau.
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