1992 Nigerian Air Force C-130 crash
Lockheed C-130H Hercules · Multiple engine failure on take-off
From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS) to Kaduna International Airport (KAD)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 159 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 159
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Lockheed C-130H Hercules
- Aircraft type
- Lockheed C-130
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- NAF911
- Operator
- Nigerian Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 159
- Route
- From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS)To Kaduna International Airport (KAD)
Approximate · Estimated position: Ejigbo, Lagos, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 26 September 1992, a Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules crashed three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria. All 159 people on board were killed, including 8 foreign nationals. The aircraft was taking off at high weight and three of its four engines failed.
A total of 151 Nigerians, 5 Ghanaians, 1 Tanzanian, 1 Zimbabwean, and 1 Ugandan military officers were confirmed to have died. This is the deadliest crash of a C-130 Hercules aircraft. The accident was also one of the factors leading to the hijacking of Nigeria Airways a year later, with the hijackers demanding a reinvestigation into the cause of the accident.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1992 Nigerian Air Force C-130 crash
- Revision
- 1368642068 · 2026-08-10 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q4587819
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1992 Nigerian Air Force C-130 crash" (page 36055029, revision 1368642068)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.