Tu-134 crash in Lagos
Harka Air Services Tupolev Tu-134 · Difficult weather conditions
From Kaduna to Murtala Muhammed Airport (Lagos)
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
- 16 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 64
- 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
Tupolev Tu-134
- Aircraft type
- Tupolev TU-134
- 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
- RA-65617
- Operator
- Harka Air Services
- Onboard fatalities
- 16
- Route
- From KadunaTo Murtala Muhammed Airport (Lagos)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Tu-134 crash in Lagos was an aviation accident that occurred on Saturday 24 June 1995 in Lagos involving a Tu-134A aircraft of the airline Harka Air Services, in which 16 people died.
Crash
The aircraft was operating a flight from Kaduna to Lagos; it was flown by a Russian crew headed by captain V. V. Lerner, while the flight attendants were Nigerians. At Lagos's Murtala Muhammed Airport the Tu-134 was landing in a downpour with a strong crosswind and low cloud, and the runway was flooded with water. As a result, owing to ineffective braking, the airliner was unable to stop on the runway, ran off it onto the end safety area, travelled 250 metres (according to other data — 500 metres), struck a concrete drainage pipe and broke apart. A fire broke out at the crash site. Because the pilots and the flight attendants interacted poorly (probably owing to the language barrier), some of the passengers remained seated in the cabin and died in the fire. 16 passengers died in the crash.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Ту-134 в Лагосе” (revision 150625797, 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
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Ту-134 в Лагосе
- Article
- Катастрофа Ту-134 в Лагосе
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 150625797 · 2025-12-13 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q16662576
- 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
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Ту-134 в Лагосе" (page 4478910, revision 150625797), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An airliner of the airline Harka Air Services carrying passengers from Kaduna to Lagos: an airline flight. The article: "involving a Tu-134A aircraft of the airline Harka Air Services, in which 16 people died"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Russian Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.