48yrs since Nigeria’s first air crash, inadequate equipment haunts safety

November 10, 2021

Nigeria’s first air crash occurred 48 years ago in Kano, which may have been caused by an act of God (bad weather).

Nigeria’s first air crash occurred 48 years ago in Kano, which may have been caused by an act of God (bad weather), but one out of every six air crashes since then has been attributed to poor safety equipment at Nigerian airports. The Kano disaster, with a chartered Boeing 707 passenger plane,

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