A Nigerian Air force Plane has crashed in Yola, the capital city of Adamawa State.
The director of Defence Information for the Nigerian Armed Forces, Colonel Rabe Abubakar confirmed the incident to an online news, sahara reporters.
The details of the incident is still sketchy at the time of filing this report as it could not be confirmed if there were casualties and injured individuals on the craft.
By Demola Akinyemi
59 passengers and four crew members aboard an Overland Airlines plane escaped death, yesterday, in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, when the jet crash landed.
The aircraft, with registration number, 051175/1176, was said to be on its way to Ibadan when it developed fault.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that no casualty was recorded in the incident that happened around 5.30pm at the Ilorin International Airport.
Some passengers on board the aircraft commended the pilot who they claimed averted what they believed could have been a fatal accident.
One of the passengers,Mr Samuel Ajala, however, complained about the lackadaisical attitude of the staff of the airline to their plight as they were said to have been left unattended to after the incident.
The wreck of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali, officials say.
The French president’s office said that troops were on their way to secure the site, about 50km (30 miles) from the Burkina Faso border.
Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane early on Thursday after pilots reported severe storms.
The passengers on the Air Algerie flight included 51 French citizens.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 – Flight AH 5017 – had been chartered from Spanish airline Swiftair.
President Francois Hollande expressed solidarity with the friends and families of those on board.
“A French military unit has been sent to (the area) to secure the site and gather evidence,” his office said in a statement.
The statement went on to say that the plane had “disintegrated”, without giving further details.
The crash site was identified on Thursday by the Burkina Faso army.
“At the moment we have no further information on (the fate of) the passengers but our teams are hard at work” said Gilbert Diendere, a Burkina Faso army general.
Gen Diendere said Mali had agreed to their cross-border search which was launched after a resident in Gossi described seeing a plane go down to the south-west of the town.
“They found human remains and the wreckage of the plane totally burnt and scattered,” he told the Associated Press news agency.
Malian state television confirmed that the wreckage was found in the village of Boulikessi by a helicopter from Burkina Faso.
French fighter jets and UN helicopters had been hunting for the wreck in the more remote desert region of northern Mali between Gao and Tessalit.
Contact with Flight AH 5017 was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou early on Thursday morning, Air Algerie said.
The pilot had contacted Niger’s control tower in Niamey at around 01:30 GMT to change course because of a sandstorm, officials say.
Burkina Faso authorities said the passenger list comprised 27 people from Burkina Faso, 51 French, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, two from Luxembourg, five Canadians, four Germans, one Cameroonian, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Swiss, one Nigerian and one Malian.
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama said Friday that a missile fired from rebel-held territory in Ukraine downed a Malaysian passenger jet and confirmed that one American was among the dead.
“Their deaths are an outrage of unspeakable proportions,” Obama told reporters.“Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine,” Obama said
Obama, while saying he was waiting for the full picture, highlighted that the pro-Russian rebels have in the past downed Ukrainian aircraft.
Obama, who earlier this week ramped up sanctions on Russia over the conflict, called on President Vladimir Putin to “take the path that would result in peace in Ukraine.”
“I think it’s important for us to recognize that this outrageous event underscored that it is time for peace and security to be restored in Ukraine,” Obama said.
“Now is, I think, a somber, appropriate time for all of us to step back and take a hard look at what has happened. Violence and conflict inevitably lead to unforeseen consequences,” he said.
By Ehi Ekhator, Naija Center News
the plane was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with about 295 passengers on board and crashed near the town of Snizhne, according to a report from interfax news agency.The airline’s official Twitter account said: “Malaysia Airlines said has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam. The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace. More details to follow.”
A source in the Russian aviation industry told Reuters that the plane did not enter Russian airspace when expected and had crashed in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian air force has had planes shot down by rebels in the same region by rebels over the last week. Earlier on Thursday, Ukraine accused Russia of downing one of its fighter jets inside Ukrainian territory.
An adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister said the Malaysian plane been shot downAn adviser to
