The Accident Investigation and Prevention Bureau has commenced investigation into the crash of Embraer 120 ER aircraft, marked 5N-BJY, belonging to Associated Aviation Limited, which occurred at the Joint Users Hydrants installation at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos at 9:30am on Thursday.
Flight recorders of the ill-fated aircraft have been recovered and will be downloaded at the Bureau’s newly installed flight laboratory at its Abuja headquarters.
The readout of the recorders has commenced.
The aircraft, which crashed less than three minutes after take-off from Runway 18L of the airport, had 20 souls on board, including seven members.
There were six survivors as at October 5, 2013.
Associated Aviation Limited is a Nigerian registered domestic airline, which operates chartered and scheduled flights in the country.
The operations of the airline has since been banned by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority.
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