I Was Confident My Three Daughters Would Survive the 2006 ADC Plane Crash –Idris, ex-Kogi State governor
...a Punch Newspaper Exclusive... Nigerians woke up to yet another news of plane crash on Sunday, October 29,2006 when Aviation Development Company Airlines Flight 53 operated by ADC Airlines crashed shortly after take-off from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria. Immediately after take-off from Abuja, the Boeing 737 contacted the ground, broke up and caught fire in a farm. The flight carried 100 passengers and five crew members. The plane carried a number of high profile personalities like Muhammadu Maccido, the Sultan of Sokoto and spiritual leader of Nigeria’s Muslims, the sultan’s son, Senator Badamasi Maccido, Dr. Nnennia Mgbor, the first ever female West African ENT surgeon, and Abdulrahman Shehu Shagari, son of former President Shehu Shagari. Out of about 105 passengers and crew, only nine people survived and interestingly out of them, three daughters of Ibrahim Idris, former governor of Kogi State cheated death. The crash, which was the eleventh...