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Nigeria plane reported engine failure

People watch as a crane removes wreckage from the site of a plane crash at Iju-Ishaga neighbourhood, Lagos June 4, 2012. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

ABUJA (Reuters) – A plane that crashed in Nigeria’s main city of Lagos on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board, called the control tower to report dual engine failure shortly before going down, the aviation minister said on Wednesday.

People watch as a crane removes wreckage from the site of a plane crash at Iju-Ishaga neighbourhood, Lagos June 4, 2012. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

“It was shortly after the captain’s distress call that the aircraft could no longer be seen in the radar and communication was lost,” Stella Oduah told journalists in the presidential villa.

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