Crashed Nigerian plane had two Indians on board

Initial reports indicated that the Dana Air plane that crashed in Lagos in Nigeria on Sunday killing 153 people had an Indian national who was the co-pilot but it was later verified that he was a hardware engineer working in Lagos. The deceased was identified as by the Indian High Commission as Rijo Eldhose. Eldhose, originally from a village in Avolichall in Kerala had gone to Nigeria to work as a hardware engineer, the Times of India reported. [caption id=“attachment_332117” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“A rescue worker walks past the wreckage of a plane in Lagos, Nigeria on Monday. AP/PTI”] [/caption] A source at the national emergency management agency said the aircraft had 147 people on board besides six crew members. Thousands of people crowded around the wreckage, which billowed black smoke, in the Agege suburb of the city. Witnesses said they had seen the plane strike a building and burst into flames. Some look stunned, while others took pictures with their camera phones of the crash scene, in a run down part of town where ramshackle tin-roofed houses line mud roads. Air crashes are not uncommon in Nigeria, Africa’s second biggest economy, which has a poor airline safety record. With agency inputs