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Sosoliso Flight 1145 and Nigeria’s worst air disasters

Sosoliso...    December 10 may just be another day for millions of Nigerian, but for some it symbolises sorrow and tears, a day that left scars. The reason? On December 10, 2005, a DC-9 plane operated by Sosoliso Airlines crash-landed in Port Harcourt resulting in the death of 108 of the 110 people aboard the plane. According to reports, many of the victims survived the crash, but died in the resulting fire due to poor emergency services at the airport. The fact that sixty-one secondary school pupils from Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja were aboard the flight made