Status: Preliminary
Date: 22 OCT 2005
Time: ca 20:40
Type: Boeing 737-2L9
Operator: Bellview Airlines
Registration: 5N-BFN
C/n / msn: 22734/818
First flight: 1981-11-13
Crew: Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Passengers: Fatalities: 111 / Occupants: 111
Total: Fatalities: 117 / Occupants: 117
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Lisa (Nigeria)
Phase: En route
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Lagos-Murtala Muhammed Airport (LOS/DNMM), Nigeria
Destination airport: Abuja International Airport (ABV/DNAA), Nigeria
Flightnumber: 210
Narrative:
Bellview flight 210 took off from Lagos at 20:35 for a domestic flight to Abuja. Last radio contact was about three minutes after takeoff. The flight was cleared to climb to FL250 and was to report when reaching FL130.
The next morning the wreckage was found about 30 kms (20 miles) north of Lagos.
The latest Lagos TAF weather forecast for the period of the crash read:
DNMM 221550Z 221818 28007KT 9999 FEW010
TEMPO 0507 5000 BR
BECMG 0810 21008G20KT BKN013
TEMPO FEW020CB=
Events:
Result - Loss of control