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Nigerian airline, Dana Air resumes flights – cause of June crash inconclusive
“Until we are sure what caused the crash, we can’t make a decision on the MD-83,” Obi told the Associated Press.
Federal officials have given Dana Air a two-month window to complete insurance payments to the bereaved, Obi said. That could prove difficult, as Usidamen said the airline’s insurers have made full payments to only five families of victims so far. Usidamen blamed the delays on families not obtaining the required documents from probate courts.
Nigeria has suffered a series of plane crashes over the last decades.
The Dana Air crash represented the worst airline disaster in the country since Sept. 27, 1992, when a military transport plane crashed into a swamp shortly after takeoff from Lagos and killed all 163 people onboard. The worst air disaster in Nigeria happened in 1973, when a Jordanian Boeing 707 crashed at Nigeria’s Kano international airport and killed 176 people.
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