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How the First Plane Crash in Nigeria Happened in April 1942

The first plane crash in Nigeria happened on the 12th of April, 1942 on a hill called Igbo Ilapa in the quiet town of Ikogosi, Ekiti State.

Besides being famous for housing a popular tourist attraction where warm and cold springs meet, Ikogosi happens to be the first place where a plane crash incident occurred in Nigeria.

How did the crash happen?
The 2nd world war was ongoing when a cargo plane which was carrying arms and ammunition (including explosives) crashed at Igbo Ilapa in Ikogosi. The explosives made the crash a fatal one as they kept exploding for hours.

First Plane Crash In NIgeria
This set the whole of Igbo Ilapa, now called Igbo Baalu (forest of aeroplane), on fire and destroyed every living and non-living thing in the environment. OldNaija gathered that the pilot, with great efforts, manoeuvred the plane to crash on the forest-cloaked hill instead of the quiet town which would have left many people dead and several properties destroyed.

Till this very moment, two hole-riddled engines and other body parts of the plane can still be found on the hill.
And for Nigerian owned plane, the first crash was recorded on the 20th of November, 1969. The plane, DC-10, was owned by the government. The plane took off in London and crash-landed in Lagos. 82 people, including the plane crew, died in the crash.

https://oldnaija.com/2020/07/14/how-the-first-plane-crash-in-nigeria-happened-in-april-1942/

Is That The Aeroplane Wearing Blue Jean?

LMS1:
Is That The Aeroplane Wearing Blue Shirt?

Those are the particle's... It has become a tourist site

People go to snap...pictures

robosky02:


Those are the particle's... It has become a tourist site
People go to snap...pictures

Ok I Understand.So That Monument With Bald Head Was Part Of The Aeroplane.
Na Joke O

In 1942

Was the country called Nigeria?

Homeboiy:
In 1942

Was the country called Nigeria?

It was called Nigeria under the British colony

Nigeria has been existing as an entity since January 1914, even before the First World War.

History should be returned to our schools

Amotolongbo:
It was called Nigeria under the British colony

Nigeria has been existing as an entity since January 1914, even before the First World War.

History should be returned to our schools

Ok Thanks for letting me know

Kriss216:
The Omoluabis will take this as an achievement now.




They will be like "The first two Plane Crash both foreign and national happened in Yoruba land".


Yoruba AMAKA!

nobody should reply this person again abeg
Its better we ignore a senseless person dan to b convincing him not to b
Cus he wont still understand
Its just better we let display his senselessness to his satisfaction
It just ganna b a waste of tym

Plane crash na sumtin persin suppose dey happy about?
E be like say News don finish for dis naija, dey government don achieve wetin dem want!
Make i try achieve wetin i want godinu!
I want to sell dis Twitter of 5yrs

But currently Nigeria itself is crashing with the speed of light.

Insecurity has increased astronomically
Inflation, is also on the same path.
Infact almost everything is deteriorating at astronomical rate.

I hope Nigeria becomes a past someday.

SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY.
WHATEVER HAPPENS TO BUILDING SMALL CHALETS AND TURN THIS PLACE TO A BEAUTIFUL TOURIST SITE WHILE LEAVING THE RUINS AS IT IS.
THIS CAN GENERATE REVENUE COS I FEEL LIKE VISITING THE SITE ALREADY AND I BELIEVE SO MANY READING THIS WILL ALSO LIKE IT..
AM EVEN GUESSING TRAVELWAKA GO DON DEY EYE THE SITE NOW

This set the whole of Igbo Ilapa, now called Igbo Baalu (forest of aeroplane), on fire and destroyed every living and non-living thing in the environment .

And some kids born yesterday are praying for war in our darling nation?

Small pikin no know juju e dey call am vegetable.

Nah eh! No qualms
This is so unsophisticated

Plane crash one of the deadliest auto crash

Oh I love history...OP thank you for this piece of information. They should protect those two items before it is sold as 'condemn' by scavengers.

Lol.

Make aboki, the scrap buyer see those iron. We go know what next.

How accurate is this? There was a plane crash in the 1920s earlier in the colonial era

Na wa o

Attention
Please that guy that calls himself kriss is not an Igbo boy
Please you guys should disregard anything he post, That guy is only out to cause confusion on NL
igbos ain't this tribalistic

People wey dey pack Iron Condemn neva enta d bush.

Xucxex1997:
Attention
Please that guy that calls himself kriss is not an Igbo boy
Please you guys should disregard anything he post, That guy is only out to cause confusion on NL
igbos ain't this tribalistic

U sef see am?
He is the same boy that cancels thread and post pornographic pictures all over Nairaland.

Some kids might be sitting on their parent's laps while the parents are browsing the forum and zooooom, disgusting pornographic pictures on their face


Well, over to the s.
#WeDidOurPart.
We cannot do more than we have been doing.

NOTED

Hmmm, what is with Yoruba land and "Igbo" this, "Igbo" that, yet they hate Igbos so much with ion but all indications point to the fact that they are descendants of the Igbos according to Ooni

Must have been piston engined.
I can only imagine the terror that the villagers must have