Bellview Airlines Flight 210
The crater left by the aircraft | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 22 October 2005 |
| Summary | Crashed shortly after takeoff, cause undetermined |
| Site | |
| Aircraft | |
| The aircraft involved in the accident, pictured while still in operation with Midway Airlines in 1987 | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-200 |
| Aircraft name | Resilience |
| Operator | Bellview Airlines |
| IATA flight No. | B3210 |
| ICAO flight No. | BLV210 |
| Call sign | Bellview 210 |
| Registration | 5N-BFN |
| Flight origin | Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria |
| Destination | Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria |
| Occupants | 117 |
| Passengers | 111 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 117 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Bellview Airlines Flight 210 was a scheduled Nigerian domestic passenger flight of a Boeing 737-200 airliner from Lagos to Abuja, operated by Lagos-based Bellview Airlines. On 22 October 2005, the aircraft nose-dived and crashed at high speed a few minutes after takeoff, killing all 117 people on board.
The investigation of the crash was hampered by the lack of physical evidence on the crash site, which was caused by the aircraft's high speed during impact and by looting afterward. The flight recorders were not recovered, and forensic analysis of the pilots could not be conducted. As a result, the investigation was not able to conclude the cause of the crash.
The crash of Flight 210 was followed by the crashes of Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 in 2005 and ADC Airlines Flight 053 in 2006. In response, then-president Olusegun Obasanjo vowed to overhaul the aviation sector.