PLANE COVEYING AGAGU'S REMAINS CRASHES IN LAGOS

Rescue Operations at the scene of the crash

It was a black Thursday morning in Nigeria when an aircraft conveying the body of a former Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, crashed in Lagos less than a minute after take-off from the local wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja.

The EMBRA plane 120, with other 20 passengers on board, was conveying the body of the former governor, who died a week ago, to Akure, the state capital, for the final burial ceremonies. The 30-seat plane, belonging to Associated Airlines, was said to have crashed around 9.20am immediately after take-off into the compound of a private firm, around the MMIA access gate.

Masquerade234 gathered that Residents around the area affirmed that the exploded mid-air before coming down. As of the time of filling this report, five of the passengers had been rescued out of the 20 on board and they are been treated at an airforce hospital.

No official statement had been made by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, but the spokesman for the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, Yakubu Datti, confirmed the crash.