Okada Air BAC 1-11 accident near Sokoto
BAC 1-11-402AP · A crash of an Okada Air BAC 1-11 occurred on 26 June 1991 on a domestic flight of the Nigerian airline Okada Air from Lagos to Kano
From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS) to Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (KAN)
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
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 49
- 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
BAC 1-11-402AP
- Aircraft type
- Bac 1
- 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-AOW
- Operator
- Okada Air
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS)To Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (KAN)
Approximate · Estimated position: Sokoto (city), near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
A crash of an Okada Air BAC 1-11 occurred on 26 June 1991 on a domestic flight of the Nigerian airline Okada Air from Lagos to Kano. In the incident, a BAC 1-11-402AP (5N-AOW) had to land in a field because of fuel exhaustion, and four people died.
Occupants and flight sequence
The aircraft took off at 19:05 local time from Murtala Mohammad Airport in Lagos on a scheduled domestic flight to Kano Airport. 48 passengers had boarded the flight. In addition, there was a four-member crew on board, consisting of a captain, a first officer and two flight attendants.
Accident sequence
Because of a bad weather front, no direct flight to Kano could be undertaken. After almost two hours in the air, the crew had not managed to get onto a route to Kano. The pilots then determined that the aircraft was near Sokoto, a city 380 kilometres west of Kano. Because of the bad weather front they were unable to continue the flight to Kano. When they reached Sokoto Airport at around 21:00, it was closed and the lighting was switched off. The airport was operated only in daylight and was closed at nightfall.
Because of a shortage of kerosene, the pilots finally had to carry out an emergency landing in a field six kilometres from Sokoto Airport. During the emergency landing the landing gear was torn off and the aircraft broke apart. Four passengers were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer BAC 1-11 der Okada Air bei Sokoto” (revision 267741322, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer BAC 1-11 der Okada Air bei Sokoto
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 267741322 · 2026-06-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q65235407
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer BAC 1-11 der Okada Air bei Sokoto" (page 10774138, revision 267741322), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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 is an airline according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.