Dana admits ill-fated plane had engine failure

Officials of Dana Airline, owners of the ill-fated plane yesterday confirmed that it had engine failure based on the pilot’s distress calls to the control tower at about 2:42 pm. The airline also disclosed that there was likelihood that relations of the dead passengers may start claiming their corpses today. 


The director flight operations, Captain Oscar E. Watson, told journalists during a press briefing in Lagos yesterday that the pilot reported engine failure but it was not certain whether it was a double engine failure until the flight recordings in the Black Box were accessed. 


“There is no confirmation that we had twin engine failure but the pilot reported engine failure. It’s not certain that both engine failed. It is just speculation. But based on the standard of training pilots, the pilot can say I have engine one or engine two failure. Probably the pilot said engine two had failed, or call May Day.


 Thus, until we listen to the recordings, we cannot say exactly. We should be careful with wrong information spewing across the country,” he said.