Plane with 116 on board missing in Nigeria...

[Zim Hosein]

LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian airliner carrying 116 people has gone missing after taking off from Lagos on Saturday, airline officials and media said, but it was not yet clear whether the plane had crashed.

CNN television reported the Federal Airports Authority had confirmed it had gone down shortly after taking off from the commercial capital.

But a public liaison official at the authority told Reuters early on Sunday it had not confirmed the Bellview Airlines Boeing 737-200 had crashed and was still trying to find it.

"It took off at 8:45 and lost contact," a Bellview official told Reuters by telephone, adding that there had been no sightings of the plane since then.

Aviation authorities were trying to locate the aircraft after it lost contact with the control tower minutes after taking off for the capital Abuja.

The privately owned Nigerian airline is popular with expatriates living in the West African nation and Western diplomats feared several their citizens could have been on board.

The airports authority official told Reuters the airliner was carrying 116 people: 110 passengers and six crew. Nigerian media had earlier said there was 114 on board.

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.

Plane with 116 on board missing in Nigeria

This is , how does something like this happen in this day and age?

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

I think it's on that island....

 

[BMdoobieW]

Because airplanes are complex things and so many things can go wrong.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Hopefully all the spammers were on board.

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
I think it's on that island....

that island has scary polar bears on it! :Q

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Hopefully all the spammers were on board.

I think they want your bank account number so they can land the plane.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
I think it's on that island....

that island has scary polar bears on it! :Q

and penguins!

 

[borosp1]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Hopefully all the spammers were on board.

yes all the mugu's pics are posted here:
http://www.419eater.com/html/trophy_room.htm

 

[Howard]

It was the British royal family.

 

[Carbo]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Hopefully all the spammers were on board.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Hopefully all the spammers were on board.

They are all Americans and are holding them hostage until you give them your SS# and bank acct #.

 

[Mojoed]

Wreckage found. The good news is more than half the people survived.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Wreckage found. The good news is more than half the people survived.

that bad news is that less than half died

that is a lot of people

 

[jpeyton]

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[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: Mojoed
Wreckage found. The good news is more than half the people survived.

that bad news is that less than half died

that is a lot of people

yeah but typically in a plane crash... no one survives.