Another Weekend Crash

After getting a 5+ year respite from plane crashes, Nigeria was again thrown into turmoil last weekend. First a Nigerian cargo plane went down in Ghana, then a suicide bomber and worst of it all, a Dana Air (Flight 992) plane fell out of the sky on a building minutes to landing. Sad indeed.
One curious thing about this though, the last major air disasters in Nigeria all happened on a weekend. Check this out.
May 4, 2002 (Saturday): EAS Airlines Flight 4226. 145 dead
October 22, 2005 (Saturday): Bellview Airlines Flight 210. 117 dead
Dec. 10, 2005 (Saturday): Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145. 108 dead
October 29, 2006 (Sunday): ADC Airlines Flight 53. 97 dead
June 3, 2012 (Sunday): Dana Air Flight 992. 193 dead
Could it be that everyone involved with air safety just tunes off during the weekend, thinking only of the “miliki” ahead?

Author: Adedeji Olowe

Adédèjì is the founder of Lendsqr, the loan infrastructure fintech powering lenders at scale. Before this, he led Trium Limited, the corporate VC of the Coronation Group, which invested in Woven Finance, Sparkle Bank, Clane, and L1ght, amongst others. He has almost two decades of banking experience, including stints as the Divisional Head of Electronic Banking at Fidelity Bank Plc. He drove the turnaround of the bank’s digital business. He was previously responsible for United Bank for Africa Group’s payment card business across 19 countries. Alongside other industry veterans, he founded Open Banking Nigeria, the nonprofit driving the development and adoption of a common API standard for the Nigerian financial industry. Beyond open APIs, Adédèjì works deeply within the fintech ecosystem; he’s the board chairman at Paystack. Adédèjì is a renowned fintech pundit and has been blogging on technology and payments at dejiolowe.com since 2001.

One thought on “Another Weekend Crash”

  1. Lol @ miliki ahead , I just fink there’s so much rush at d weekends n then they r forced to pull out d worse of d planes ..even if they knw d conditions r bad ….really sad

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