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The Kano air disaster was a chartered Boeing 707 passenger flight on 22 January 1973 that crashed while attempting to land at Kano International Airport, Vanguard reports.
It is the deadliest aviation disaster ever to take place in Nigeria,[1] as 176 passengers and crew perished in the crash. There were 26 survivors. [wikipedia]
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According to
Nytimes, Nigeria, Jan. 22 1973 — A chartered jetliner carrying Nigerian Moslems home from a pilgrimage to Mecca crashed and burned today while landing in fog in northern Nigeria, and it was feared that 180 people had been killed.
Twenty‐two of the 202 aboard survived, among them the pilot and several other crew members, according to reports from the airport at Kano, 525 miles north of here.
A death toll of 180 would make the crash the worst air disaster in history. Previously, the crash of a Soviet airliner near Moscow on Oct. 13, in which 176 people died, had been listed as the worst. The chartered jet, a Boeing 707 that belonged to Royal Jordanian Airways, was one of many planes involved in transporting Nigerian Moslems, as about 30,000 made the trip to Mecca this year.
The crash was witnessed by a crowd attracted to the scene by word that 80 pilgrims, none identified by name, had died during the pilgrimage to the Saudi Arabian city that Moslems regard as the most sacred.
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