Dana Air Flight 992

Dana Air Flight 992

5N-RAM, the aircraft involved in the accident, seen here in Murtala Muhammed International Airport in 2009.
Incident summary
Date	3 June 2012
Summary	Collided with building following double engine failure on approach to land
Site	Lagos, Nigeria 06°34′38″N 003°19′16″E / 6.57722°N 3.32111°E / 6.57722; 3.32111Coordinates: 06°34′38″N 003°19′16″E / 6.57722°N 3.32111°E / 6.57722; 3.32111
Passengers	147
Crew	6
Fatalities	163 (all, including 10 on the ground)
Injuries (non-fatal)	0
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	McDonnell Douglas MD-83
Operator	Dana Air
Registration	5N-RAM
Flight origin	Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria
Destination	Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria

Dana Air Flight 992 was a scheduled domestic commercial passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria. On Sunday, 3 June 2012, the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft operating the flight crashed into a furniture works and printing press building in the Iju-Ishaga neighbourhood of Lagos. The crash resulted in the deaths of all 153 people on board and 10 more on the ground. The crash of Flight 992 is the deadliest aviation disaster involving a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, as well as the second-deadliest involving an MD-80 series aircraft, behind Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308. It is also the second-deadliest aircraft crash on Nigerian soil, behind the Kano air disaster of 1973.

The aircraft was a twin-engined McDonnell Douglas MD-83, registered in Nigeria as 5N-RAM, built in 1990 and been used by Alaska Airlines until 2007 and was sold to another airline before acquired by Dana Air in February 2009. The airframe had accumulated 60,846 hours of total flight time since new. The left and right engines had 54,322 and 26,025 hours of total flight time since new, respectively. The last maintenance on the aircraft was performed on 1 June 2012, two days before the accident.

The accident occurred after the crew reported engine trouble and declared an emergency 11 nautical miles (20 km) from the airport. The MD-83 then crashed into a crowded neighbourhood near the airport, apparently landing on its tail and causing a large fire.

The crash scene reportedly became chaotic, with The Sun reporting that thousands of Lagos residents attempted to approach the site. Crowds attempted to bring hoses to the site while soldiers attempted to disperse onlookers with punches and rubber whips. The onlookers then threw stones at the soldiers in retaliation. Water for firefighting was scarce for several hours due to the city's shortage of fire trucks, and civilians attempted to fight the fire by hand with water from plastic buckets. Water trucks commandeered from nearby construction projects had difficulties reaching the site due to the neighbourhood's narrow roads.