An aviation accident is an event during aircraft operation that causes serious injury,death,or destruction. An aviation incident is any operating event that compromises safety but does not progress to an actual accident. Preventing accidents and incidents is the main goal of aviation safety.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) is an international airport located in Ikeja,Lagos State,Nigeria,and is the major airport serving the entire state. The airport was initially built during World War II and is named after Murtala Muhammed (1938–1976),the fourth military ruler of Nigeria.
Chanchangi Airlines Nigeria Limited was a privately owned and operated airline with its head office in the Chanchangi Office Complex in Kaduna,Nigeria. It operates scheduled domestic passenger services. Its main base was Murtala Mohammed International Airport,Lagos,with hubs at Kaduna,Abuja,and Port Harcourt. Alhaji Ahmadu Chanchangi,its founder,hails from Chanchangi village in Takum Local Government of Taraba state,Nigeria.
Associated Aviation was an airline based in Ikeja,Lagos State,Nigeria. It was established in 1996 and operates passenger and cargo services within Nigeria and in West Africa. Its main base was Murtala Mohammed International Airport,Lagos. As of June 2019,it is no longer operational.
Air Nigeria was the national flag carrier of Nigeria,which operated scheduled regional and domestic passenger services. The airline's base was Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Ikeja,its head office was in Lagos Island,Lagos,and its registered office was in Ikoyi,Lagos.
Hosea Kutako International Airport is the main international airport of Namibia,serving the capital city Windhoek. Located well east of the city,45 km (28 mi),it is Namibia's largest airport with international connections. From its founding in 1965 to the independence of Namibia in 1990,it was named J.G. Strijdom Airport. In 1990 the airport was renamed,in honor of Namibian national hero Hosea Kutako.
Bellview Airlines Flight 210 was a scheduled Nigerian domestic passenger flight of a Boeing 737-200 airliner from Lagos to Abuja,operated by Lagos-based Bellview Airlines. On 22 October 2005,the aircraft nose-dived and crashed at high speed just a few minutes after take-off,killing all 117 people on board.
Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145(SO1145/OSL1145) was a scheduled Nigerian domestic passenger flight from Nigeria's capital of Abuja (ABV) to Port Harcourt (PHC). At about 14:08 local time on 10 December 2005,Flight 1145 from Abuja crash-landed at Port Harcourt International Airport. The aircraft,a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 with 110 people on board,slammed into the ground and burst into flames. Immediately after the crash,seven survivors were recovered and taken to hospitals,but only two people survived.
Nigeria Airways Ltd.,more commonly known as Nigeria Airways,was a Nigerian airline. The company was founded in 1958 after the dissolution of West African Airways Corporation (WAAC). It held the name West African Airways Corporation Nigeria until 1971,when it was rebranded to the name it had until it ceased operations in 2003. The government of Nigeria owned a majority of the airline (51%) until 1961,when it boosted its shareholding in the company to 100% and made it the country's flag carrier. At the time of dissolution,the airline's headquarters were at Airways House in Abuja. Operations were concentrated at Murtala Muhammed International Airport and served both domestic and international destinations mainly concentrated in West Africa;the network also had points in Europe,North America and Saudi Arabia. The airline was managed by a number of foreign companies,including British Airways,KLM and South African Airways.
Aden Adde International Airport,formerly known as Mogadishu International Airport,is an international airport serving Mogadishu,the capital of Somalia. It is named after Aden Abdullah Osman Daar,the first President of Somalia.
ADC Airlines Flight 053 (ADK053) was a scheduled passenger flight operated by ADC Airlines from Nigeria's capital of Abuja to Sokoto. On 29 October 2006,the Boeing 737-2B7 crashed onto a corn field shortly after take-off from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja,killing 96 out of 105 people on board.
Ilorin International Airport is an airport serving Ilorin,a city in Kwara State of Nigeria. Ilorin International Airport is owned and operated by Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and is located about 1.8 kilometers from downtown Ilorin. The airport has one runway,which is 3,100M X 60M,an approach of 121.2MHz
James Spriggs Payne Airport is an airport located 5 kilometres (3 mi) from downtown Monrovia,the capital of the Republic of Liberia in West Africa. The airfield is located within the busy and thickly settled Sinkor section of the city,and is therefore convenient to the business and political districts of the capital. Whereas Roberts International Airport is the primary aviation facility for the city and indeed the entire country,Spriggs-Payne has the only other paved runway in Liberia and once had the only other international commercial flights into and out of Liberia. The airport is named after James Spriggs Payne who was president of the Republic of Liberia in 1868–70 and again in 1876–78.
West African Airways Corporation,or WAAC for short,was an airline that operated from 1946 to 1958,jointly owned by the governments of Britain's four west African colonies,namely The Gambia,the Gold Coast,Nigeria,and Sierra Leone. The carrier was headquartered at the Airways House in Ikeja,Nigeria,and operated from its hub in Lagos Airport. It was dissolved on 30 September 1958,after all the shareholder countries but Nigeria set up their own national airlines following their independence. As the sole remaining major stockholder of the airline,the government of Nigeria continued to operate it as WAAC Nigeria,which was eventually renamed Nigeria Airways and became the flag carrier of the country.
Dana Air is a Nigerian airline headquartered in Ikeja,in the southwest of the country,and based in Lagos's Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
Victor Attah International Airport,is an airport serving Uyo,the capital of Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. The airport is 24 kilometres (15 mi) Southeast of Uyo,and 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) northwest of the river port of Oron.
Dana Air Flight 0992 was a scheduled Nigerian domestic passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos,Nigeria. On 3 June 2012,the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft serving the route suffered a dual-engine failure during its approach to Lagos. It failed to reach its intended destination and crashed onto buildings,killing all 153 people on board and six on the ground. With 159 deaths,it remains the deadliest commercial airliner crash in Nigerian history since the Kano air disaster in 1973.
Africa World Airlines Limited (AWA) is a Ghanaian airline company that was incorporated in 2010 and commenced flights in 2012. It has its head office in Airport City Accra,and its main hub at Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
Associated Aviation Flight 361 was a domestic charter flight operated by Associated Aviation that on 3 October 2013 crashed on takeoff from Lagos,Nigeria,killing 16 of the 20 people on board. The aircraft,a twin turboprop Embraer 120 Brasilia,was transporting the body of Nigerian politician Olusegun Agagu to Akure for burial.
United Nigeria Airlines Limited,trading as United Nigeria Airlines,is a private airline in Nigeria. The new start-up received its Air Operators Certificate (AOC),on 1 February 2021. Headquartered in the city of Enugu,with an office in Abuja,and with its operations base at Enugu International Airport,United Nigeria Airlines started with four aircraft to operate scheduled flights between nine Nigerian cities:Abuja,Onitsha,Asaba,Yenagoa,Warri,Enugu,Owerri,Lagos,and Port Harcourt.
