Another crash

[DavidPowell]

Have you seen that another 737 has crashed, this time in Nigeria. Seems to be a spate of incidents at the moment.


David

[Jetsgo]

Belview Airlines, carring 117 passengers, which crashed shortley after loosing contact with the tower upon take-off 3KM from the
main city of Lagos, Nigeria. For a few hours the plane was lost in Nigeria, no where to be found. All 117 passengers died including the
captain and crew, it was thought that only half the passengers had died, but that turned out to be a mistake at the crash scene.

[silo]

Hi,

more info here:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-1...674377.htm

"LAGOS, Oct. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- All 117 people, including 111 passengers and six crew members on board a Nigerian airliner, which crashed shortly after
takeoff from the country's commercial capital Lagos, may have died, officials said on Sunday.

"Bellview Airlines announces with deep regret the loss involving our aircraft B737-200A flight number B3210 of Saturday October 22, 2005 with a total
of 117 souls on board," the airlines' chairman Tunde Yusuf told reporters.

"We have now located the accident site at Lissa village, 16 nautical miles (about 29.6 km) northwest of the Lagos airport," Yusuf said. "We have not
been able to locate any survivor."

Fidelis Onyeyiri, director general of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, confirmed the news, saying that the plane, lost contact with control
tower shortly after it took off at 8:35 p.m. (1930 GMT) on Saturday en route to Abuja, the capital.

"An alert was raised and search and rescue efforts commenced immediately," Onyeyiri said. "Sadly the aircraft crashed."

"Our preliminary appraisal suggests that the aircraft might have started stalling after passing flight level 130, lost control, then nosedived into
the ground and created a huge crater into which it disappeared," he said.

"Unfortunately, there appear to be no survivors."

He did not blame the weather on the crash of the plane, which was manufactured in 1981 and still in serviceable condition. "Although there were some
clouds are lighting toward the northwest, there were not severe enough to have prevented the successful takeoff of the flight."



Post Edited ( 10-24-05 00:47 )

[silo]

Apparently it was another 737-200...



Post Edited ( 10-24-05 00:47 )

[Cydon Prax]

737-100's,200's,300's, and 400's are completely rundown.. I say retire them. It would be like having the Comet still inservice.

[Sovek]

now I dont agree that the 400 should be retired, but the 200's should.

[Spokane]

I agree, the 200s are just getting to old, BUT its the poorer countrys and airlines that are using them now.

[jboweruk]

Isn't it the 200's that are known for having rudder issues?