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Sixteen Seconds to Nightfall: The Sosoliso Flight 1145 Tragedy
Sixteen Seconds to Nightfall: The Sosoliso Flight 1145 Tragedy
A contained dread: a documented concrete culvert sat 70 meters left of Runway 21 and a DC-9 traveling 160 knots struck it on 10 December 2005 - 108 of 110 aboard died. How did visible hazards, unreported weather and a crew choice converge in sixteen seconds to produce one of Nigeria's deadliest crashes?
In this episode, we present the sequence of events, the aircraft and crew details, and the operational failures that preceded impact, closing on the decision altitude breach that turned a routine approach into catastrophe. What…
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