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Investigators
from Nigeria’s Accident Investigation Bureau and the United States
National Transportation Safety Board are focusing their investigations
on the samples of aviation fuel collected from the Boeing MD-83 planes
belonging to Dana Air.
Our correspondent gathered that the
accident investigators on Tuesday commenced multiple tests on samples of
aviation fuel, also known as Jet A1 fuel, collected from Dana planes
parked at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Terminal Two, Lagos.
The development, it was gathered, was based
on the belief that the dual engine failure experienced by the ill-fated
Dana plane, which crashed into residential buildings in Iju-Ishaga area
of Lagos and killed over 145 people, might have been caused by
contaminated fuel. According to experts, a fuel is said to be
contaminated when it contains some amount of water or sediments.
The investigators were said to be focusing
on the samples of the fuel in the planes because majority of past cases
of dual engine failure in the global aviation industry had been
discovered to have been caused by fuel supply issues.
PUNCH
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