Over 100 killed in Nigerian plane crash
Foreign Desk Report

LAGOS (Nigeria)—A Nigerian passenger jet crashed in stormy weather Saturday while landing in the southern city of Port Harcourt, and at least 103 people were killed, officials said. Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Sam Adurogboye said early reports indicated that seven people survived the crash of the Sosoliso Airlines DC-9. An airport worker said burned bodies lay across the landing area after the plane broke into pieces. “The place where I’m standing now is scattered with corpses,” the worker said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. Nigerian airports have come under criticism in recent months following a string of near-misses and an incident in which an Air France passenger jet crashed into a herd of cows on the runway at Port Harcourt. International airlines also briefly suspended flights at Lagos’ international airport because of holes in the runway. In October, an Abuja-bound Boeing 737-200 crashed after taking off from the airport at Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, killing 117 people on board the Bellview Airlines flight.