Bellview Crash Linked to Thunder Strike
Rotimi Durojaiye
Daily Independent
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Lagos (Nigeria):
Experts have attributed the likely cause of the crash of Bellview Flight 210 to thunder strike, accompanied by high voltage of lightning that attacked the avionic system of the aircraft.The accident occured on October 22, three minutes after the plane left Lagos for Abuja.The new angle emerged at the weekend as American experts arrived to help unravel the circumstances.
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The local experts, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said with the impact of the thunder strike on the avionics, all the systems in the aircraft must have collapsed and rotated rapidly as the two engines were still on.They said with the main hull submerged in a crater, “it is very possible that the plane must have tumbled several times”.
They ruled out sabotage, saying the preliminary appraisal by Boeing, manufacturers of the aircraft, suggests that it might have started stalling after passing flight level 130.They quoted the Boeing team as saying that the aircraft lost control, then nose-dived and created a huge crater into which it disappeared.
Boeing also quoted the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Fidelis Onyeyiri, as saying that “eyewitnesses reports say the aircraft exploded before impact”.
Oct 31, 2005
Rotimi Durojaiye
Daily Independent
______________
Lagos (Nigeria):
Experts have attributed the likely cause of the crash of Bellview Flight 210 to thunder strike, accompanied by high voltage of lightning that attacked the avionic system of the aircraft.The accident occured on October 22, three minutes after the plane left Lagos for Abuja.The new angle emerged at the weekend as American experts arrived to help unravel the circumstances.
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See Archive:
It was a Whale; Not the Crashed Plane
______________________
The local experts, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said with the impact of the thunder strike on the avionics, all the systems in the aircraft must have collapsed and rotated rapidly as the two engines were still on.They said with the main hull submerged in a crater, “it is very possible that the plane must have tumbled several times”.
They ruled out sabotage, saying the preliminary appraisal by Boeing, manufacturers of the aircraft, suggests that it might have started stalling after passing flight level 130.They quoted the Boeing team as saying that the aircraft lost control, then nose-dived and created a huge crater into which it disappeared.
Boeing also quoted the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Fidelis Onyeyiri, as saying that “eyewitnesses reports say the aircraft exploded before impact”.
Oct 31, 2005
