Nigeria plane crash

 
 
 
  • A rescue worker walks past the wreckage of a plane in Lagos, Nigeria,. The passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan and Lagos state Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola visit the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • Rescue workers search for bodies at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • Nigerian emergency services have pulled more bodies out of the still-smouldering, ash-covered wreckage of a plane that crashed in the commercial hub Lagos, killing all 153 people on board. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • People stand on top of a house viewing the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • Rescue workers have so far pulled about 62 bodies from the wreckage of a plane. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • Firefighters and rescue workers at the scene of the crash of a Dana Airline plane that plunged onto a plot containing a church and residential building in Lagos. (AFP)
  • Nigerian officials have confirmed no survivors have been found after a passenger jet carrying 153 people crashed in Lagos on Sunday. (AFP)
  • People stand on a wing of the wrecked passenger plane in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP)
  • President Goodluck Jonathan declared three days of national mourning for victims of the crash and pledged an investigation as rescuers rushed to pull out survivors from the densely populated, poor neighbourhood near the airport. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • The plane plunged into a residential area of Nigeria's largest city where an inferno ignited at the scene badly damaging the surrounding buildings. (AFP)
  • The cause of the crash of the Dana Air Boeing MD83 plane was unclear, but the emergency official as well as an aviation official said the cockpit recorder had been located and handed over to police. (Jon Gambrell, AP)
  • A helicopter hovers over the scene of the crash. (AFP)
  • Residents help bring a fire hose to the scene of the crash. Chaos broke out in the densely-populated Lagos neighbourhood as rescue workers faced heavy crowds and aggressive soldiers while trying to access smouldering wreckage. (AFP)
  • People use their mobile phones to take photos of the wreckage. (Sunday Alamba, AP)
  • People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria. (Sunday Alamba, AP)