Iberia Airlines - Nigeria Airline Admits Engine Failure Mayday Call Reuters - Rpt

Thu Jun 7, 2012 10:29pm IST

* Airline says not distinct whenever a few motor failed

* Aviation minister spoke associated with "dual engine" failure

* Iberia Airlines handling maintenance

LAGOS, June 7 (Reuters) - The operator of an business airliner that crashed in Lagos on Sunday reported with Thursday the pilot reported engine inability right before the item resolved to go down, although ?t had been not really clear in the event a couple applications acquired failed.

The Boeing McDonnell Douglas MD-83, operated simply by privately owned home-based air fare Dana Air, strike a strong condo block, preventing just about all 153 people today on board in addition to almost certainly half a dozen persons within the ground.

The flight had previously mentioned exclusively that this plane possessed very little kinetic errors previous to your accident. Thursday's responses follow a assertion from the aviation minister upon Wednesday of which both engines had failed.

"There had been a mayday call for serps failing with 1442 hours(1342 GMT). We don't know if it was before one particular as well as two," Oscar Wilson, Dana's director of airfare operations, told some sort of announcement conference. It ended up being Nigeria's worst airline catastrophe for virtually a pair of decades.

All your planes utilized by Dana happen to be tested to make certain they can travel upon only 1 engine, with accordance with international norms, he said.

Iberia Airlines , owned by way of International Airlines Group , was in ask for regarding maintenance, he said.

Wilson said inferring from the mayday call that will the actual aircraft possessed crashed because the two motor were unable seemed to be "pure speculation".

"We don't know the key reason why the item crashed. We is unable to point out the exact reason for the accident until that inspections are usually completed."

The govt features setup solar panels to assessment this safety regarding most of airlines while in the nation as well as halted Dana Air's air driving licence indefinitely.