Nigeria Airways Flight 250
Fokker F28 Fellowship 2000 · Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error in poor weather
From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS) to Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
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
- 53 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 72
- Survivors
- 19
- 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
- Airline
Fokker F28 Fellowship 2000
- Flight
- WT250
- Aircraft type
- Fokker F28
- 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
- 5N-ANF
- Operator
- Nigeria Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- 53
- Route
- From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS)To Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Enugu (city), near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
Nigeria Airways Flight 250 was a domestic Nigerian flight from Ikeja to Enugu that crashed at 11:13 a.m. on the morning of November 28, 1983. On approach to Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu, the Fokker F28 Fellowship 2000 crashed into a cassava field 3.3 km from the runway. 53 of the 72 people on board the plane were killed, making the crash the fourth-deadliest aviation accident in Nigeria at the time.
Accident
The pilots decided upon a VOR approach to Enugu. The visibility was very poor and below minima required for this approach. The minimum descent altitude of 300 ft was maintained above the local terrain, however, for unknown reasons, the plane began to descend about 3 km from the runway's threshold. The plane impacted the terrain of a cassava field.
The landing gear was torn off the aircraft and the plane slid on its belly for a few hundred feet. The left wing and engine were torn off by trees. The aft pressure bulkhead, aft fuselage, and empennage separated from the aircraft. The front fuselage was severely compressed and the cargo holds were ruptured. A fire erupted at the separated wing and engulfed the remains of the fuselage.
Investigation and cause
Probable cause
The probable cause was "the decision of the flight crew to continue the approach in below-minima weather conditions until the aircraft impacted the ground."
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Nigeria Airways Flight 250
- Article
- Nigeria Airways Flight 250
- Revision
- 1368641700 · 2026-08-10 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q123027175
- 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 "Nigeria Airways Flight 250" (page 74932839, revision 1368641700)
- 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
- airline flight number 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.