An airport taxi driver, Mathew Babatunde
who witnessed the crash narrated how it
happened.
He said, "I was just passing the toll gate with
passengers in my car when I saw the aircraft
coming down.
I even thought the plane will crash on my car the
way it was bent.
My passengers immediately shouted at me that I
should swerve the car. Immediately, I swerved
my car then I saw that the plane was struggling
to go back up.
It eventually hit a Mango tree behind Saraha Tank
Farm. Immediately the plane hit the tree, it
divided into two and caught fire. I saw one man
walked out with his leg, he was supported by two
other people. It took about 20 minutes before
ambulance came and another forty minutes
before fire service people arrived the scene.
"Those around, including Air Force, Arik and other
Nigerians were helping to rescue the victims.
"I am not working again today, I want to go and
park my car now. I am no longer interested."
Another witness, Mrs. Chidinma Nwoke spoke
while crying, saying she was among the first
people who arrived the scene of the crash. She
said "we tried to help the victims but the soldiers
and airport officials refused. They said it is
dangerous and that we were not wearing safety
boots.
"It is horrible. I saw a woman who tried to jump
out but she got hooked on the fence and she died
there. The fire outbreak consumed most of them,
including one man who was almost out. That man
would have been alive if the fire services were on
ground early enough. He was almost out of the
aircraft but fire caught his trousers and that was
how he got burnt".
"I saw a man who wore a white trouser walked
with his legs from the crash. He had only a slight
injury on the head and was taken to the clinic
near the toll gate".
Another person who witnessed it, Mr. Nasir
Ramon Olanrewaju, a senior communications
manager working at the headquarters of United
Bank for Africa (UBA), simply said, "I was at a
private hangar waiting for a flight to Ghana when
I saw the plane, an Embraer come down at the
airport. I saw it plunged into a building, close to
Tank Farm at the airport, close to toll gate".


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A timely shot

milli seconds to impact

Chaiii crying out blood

I am angry, everybody is talkin abt agagu hu was already dead, no body has talked about d pilot n co pilot.
Eye withness account in any aircrash investigation is very important.
D solders did well to restrain d pple hu hurried dia to help, it wasn't wickedness.
Neva bin to lagos but just like any order city in Nigeria, poor town planning n non chalancy must also be a factor in delay of competent emergency rescue personnel.
Nollywood shud stop actin fictitious films of witches in d village, igwe, queen, prince n princess love n arm robbery n focus on actin films dat portray wat to do in situations of emergency n how rescuers can act so as not to destroy needed evidence, little wonder we av neva bin able to solve any top profile criminal case (bola ige, remi etc) or air crash.

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And na sumbdy pikin u b so....