The Accident Investigation Bureau on Monday blamed the crash of a Dana Airlines aircraft, which occurred in the Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos on June 3, 2012 and claimed about 159 lives, on double engine failure as well as failure of the pilot to take the appropriate decision to land on the nearest air field.
The Boeing MD-83 aircraft, with registration 5N-RAM, which was coming from Abuja, had crashed into some houses in the area, killing all 153 people on board and six others on the ground. The Commissioner, AIB, Mr. Akin Olateru, said investigations found that the aircraft’s engine number one lost power 17 minutes into the flight from Abuja, and thereafter on final approach, the second engine also lost power, which made it to crash into the densely populated Lagos suburb.
He said, “The probable causal factors were: engine number one lost power 17 minutes into the flight, and thereafter on final approach, engine number two lost power and failed to respond to throttle movement on demand for increased power to sustain the aircraft in its flight configuration.“There was inappropriate omission of the use of the checklist, and the crew’s inability to appreciate the severity of the power-related problem, and their subsequent failure to land at the nearest suitable airfield as well as lack of situation awareness, inappropriate decision-making, and poor airmanship.”
Olateru said following the investigations, eight safety recommendations were made to the manufacturer of the engine, Pratt and Whitney, as well as Dana Airlines, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency and the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority.
He added, “The safety recommendations previously made in the preliminary report published on September 5, 2012 were four wherein three were targeted at Dana Airlines and all were accepted and closed.
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