Lagos - A passenger plane carrying about 150 people on board has crashed into a building
in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos. The Dana Air plane struck a two-storey building and
burst into flames, witnesses were quoted as saying. The head of the Nigerian Civil
Aviation Authority said he doubted anyone could have survived the crash. Thousands of
onlookers were drawn to the crash site. Rescue services pulled at least one body from the
rubble and were searching for survivors, AP news agency said. The plane crashed in the
densely populated Iju neighbourhood, just north of the airport, Lagos State police
spokesman Joseph Jaiyeoba told AFP.  The commercial aircraft was flying from the Nigerian
capital, Abuja, to Lagos when the crash took place. There were chaotic scenes as onlookers and emergency services rushed to the crash site. At the crash site, reporters saw plane wreckage scattered around and the body of the plane lodged into an apartment building. Several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble, reported AP. The plane did not to appear to have nose-dived into the building but to have landed on its
belly, careering through a furniture shop and then into residential buildings, it said. On 11 May a similar Dana Air plane - possibly the same one - developed a technical problem and was forced to make an emergency landing in Lagos, correspondents say. Dana Air's website says it operates Boeing MD-83 planes to cities around Nigeria out of Murtala Muhammed Airport. (FA/NSN)