{"id":10758,"date":"2013-10-03T06:06:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T06:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/passenger-plane-crashes-near-nigeria-airport\/"},"modified":"2013-10-06T05:01:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T05:01:52","slug":"passenger-plane-crashes-near-nigeria-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/passenger-plane-crashes-near-nigeria-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger plane crashes near Nigeria airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

A passenger plane on Thursday crashed near an airport in Nigeria’s capital.<\/p>\n

Photos posted to Twitter showed rescue workers surrounding the aircraft’s fuselage and gray smoke rising.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of smoke coming from the runway, but we can’t get access to it,” witness Rasaki Rhakod told Reuters from Lagos. “There are firefighters rushing to the scene.”<\/p>\n

The crash occurred near a domestic terminal.<\/p>\n

There is no immediate details on casualties. <\/p>\n

Murtala Muhammed International Airport was the scene of a June 2012 crash that killed 163 people.<\/p>\n

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A passenger plane on Thursday crashed near an airport in Nigeria’s capital. Photos posted to Twitter showed rescue workers surrounding the aircraft’s fuselage and gray smoke rising. “There’s a lot of smoke coming from the runway, but we can’t get access to it,” witness Rasaki Rhakod told Reuters from Lagos. “There are firefighters rushing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000048620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-10758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000048620,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10758.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10758.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10758.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10758.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10758.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton10758.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000048620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=10758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}