Lagos Plane Crash

A small chartered passenger plane with 27 people onboard crashed shortly after take-off at Lagos airport's domestic terminal on Thursday and at least five people were killed, authorities said.

Emergency workers in Nigeria fought fires and searched for corpses through the night in a neighborhood that an aging American-built airliner plowed into, killing all 153 on board. Rescue officials said Monday they fear many people may have perished on the ground too.

Nigerian emergency services pulled more bodies out of the still-smouldering, ash-covered wreckage of a plane on Monday that crashed in the commercial hub Lagos, killing all 153 people on board.

Rijo Eldos, a young computer engineer hailing from the Neriamangalam in Idukki district of Kerala, was one of the 153 victims who were on the Nigerian airplane that crashed on Sunday in the densely populated city of Lagos.

A look at recent major airline crashes in Nigeria: June 3: A Dana Air flight from Abuja to Lagos crashes killing all 153 people on board and an unknown number of people on the ground. Investigators have begun looking into the cause.

A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation.

153 passengers are feared dead after their plane crashed into a two-storey building in the densely populated district of Nigeria's economic capital Lagos on Sunday.

A small chartered passenger plane with 27 people onboard crashed shortly after take-off at Lagos airport's domestic terminal on Thursday and at least five people were killed, authorities said.

Emergency workers in Nigeria fought fires and searched for corpses through the night in a neighborhood that an aging American-built airliner plowed into, killing all 153 on board. Rescue officials said Monday they fear many people may have perished on the ground too.

Nigerian emergency services pulled more bodies out of the still-smouldering, ash-covered wreckage of a plane on Monday that crashed in the commercial hub Lagos, killing all 153 people on board.

Rijo Eldos, a young computer engineer hailing from the Neriamangalam in Idukki district of Kerala, was one of the 153 victims who were on the Nigerian airplane that crashed on Sunday in the densely populated city of Lagos.

A look at recent major airline crashes in Nigeria: June 3: A Dana Air flight from Abuja to Lagos crashes killing all 153 people on board and an unknown number of people on the ground. Investigators have begun looking into the cause.

A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for the troubled nation.

153 passengers are feared dead after their plane crashed into a two-storey building in the densely populated district of Nigeria's economic capital Lagos on Sunday.