The Lagos Coroner, Magistrates Komolafe Oyetade, has admitted
video clippings of the crash site on June 3, 2012, of Dana Air plane
crash at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos. The court had earlier
summoned some media houses present at the crash site on the day of the
incident to come and testify before it.
Media houses such as Channels Television and Television Continental were invited.
Channels
Television witness, Mr. Oreoluwa Shonibare, narrated that on the
fateful day, he was on duty when he got a call from his director that a
plane had crashed at Iju Ishaga.
He said he arrived at the scene
at about 3.30 p.m. and met a large crowd at the scene and smoke
billowing from the crashed plane which made it almost impossible to see
the plane.
Shonibare described how the plane crashed into a
two-storey building and destroyed another bungalow. He said he was not
aware of the casualty figure, adding that he had to join the rescue
effort when he saw the way humans were burning.
He disclosed that
he tried to interview some of the rescue officials but they refused to
talk to him or give him details of the crash before his arrival.
Shonibare
who could not give the precise number of policemen and officials
present at the scene, added that the crowd was wild at a point but that
the law enforcement agents were able to control them.
He also
stated that the rescue effort was a joint effort between the Lagos State
Fire Services, Nigeria Emergency Management Agency, Airforce, Civil
Defence Corp and other rescue teams.
Mr. Olugboyega Oshifowora,
another witness, a reporter from Television continental, told the court
that he had gone for an assignment earlier and when he came to file his
report in the office, he was immediately told to go to Iju Ishaga, where
the plane crashed.
Oshifowora, who was with his cameraman and
driver, narrated that on arrival at the scene, his cameraman immediately
took pictures of the engine and tail of the plane.
He told the
court that he cannot give the exact time he arrived at the site but that
he met officials of the Lagos State Fire Services and Federal Airport
Authority of Nigeria there when he got there.
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/08/02/dana-plane-crash-coroner-admits-video-footage/
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