Black Thursday in Nigeria; Private Jet conveying the corpse of an ex governor crashed on take- off!

It was indeed a 'black' Thursday morning in Lagos- Nigeria, when a  20 seater Embraer 120 aircraft belonging to  Associated Airline, conveying the corpse of former Aviation Minister and  late Ex- Ondo state governor Olusegun Agagu to Akure (Ondo state capital), for his burial, crashed on take-off at about 9:30am; at Mafoluku area of the Lagos. 

Close to the section were JET-A1 plane fuel was stored.

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The late Agagu's  corpse was to be received at the Akure Airport by 9 a.m. on Thursday (03/10/2013) for a lying-in -state at the Democracy Park, Akure, same day.



It was revealed that late Olusegun Agagu's  wife and some members of his family, the Ondo state Governor Olusegun Mimiko and some of the state's commissioners were gathered at the Akure airport waiting for the corpse of the former governor, when news of the crash filtered in.

 

The coffin however remained  intact despite the accident.

Those on board the ill fated jet includes: Feyi Agagu (the late Agagu's son), Deji falae, (the son of Chief Olu Falae), Femi Akinsanya, Joseph Akintunde, Chijioke Duru, Akeem Akintunde, Tunji Okunsanya, Deji Afolabi, Amechi Kingsley, Olatunji Akinsanya, Deji Falae, Hassan Samson, Mrs. E.O Alabi, Deji Bernard. 

Crew Members: Yakubu (Captain),   Oyinlola (Flight officer), Saroh Elaiye (Engineer), Ibrahim (Flight dispatcher),  Samson (Cabin attendant), Owolabi (Cabin Attendant), Felix Tatoye.

The late Olusegun Agagu

However, family members of the former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu, insisted they would go ahead with his interment in his home town Iju-Odo community -Ondo State; despite the incident.