Nigerian President Grounds Two Airlines (AP)
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Women who lost their children in the Sosoliso plane crash cry as they as they are consoled by an unidentified priest in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2005. A memorial service was held Tuesday at the airport for the victims and grieving families who lost their relatives at Saturday's crash of a Nigerian airliner ferrying schoolchildren home for the holidays. All but three of the 110 people on board died when the Sosoliso Airlines' McDonnell Douglas DC-9 slammed into the ground on approach to the southern oil-industry center of Port Harcourt.. (AP Photo/George Osodi)
AP - President Olusegun Obasanjo grounded two private Nigerian airlines Tuesday after two deadly plane crashes killed 224 people in seven weeks. |
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