Families of Dana Air crash victims demand immediate release of report

The families of victims of the 2012 Dana plane crash, which claimed 153 lives, are demanding the immediate release of the final report on the crash.

Chairman of the Families of the Victims, Paul Okwulehie, also appealed to the Federal Government to compel the management of Dana Air to complete the payment of compensation to the affected families. He spoke at the fourth anniversary of the crash in Abuja today.

The group, which announced the establishment of a Safer Sky Foundation, further stressed the need for the federal government through its regulatory agencies to ensure that only air-worthy aircrafts are allowed to operate in the nation’s airspace.

A Mcdonnell Douglas MD-83 operating as flight 992 crashed into a two-storey building at Iju railway, Ishaga, a suburb of Lagos.

The airline’s licence was restored in September 2012, before the inquiry into the accident was concluded.

However, the airline was re-suspended six months after it was allowed to restart operations, before it resumed operations again.