One of the two persons that survived the Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crash at the Port Harcourt airport on December 10, 2005 in which 107 persons died, Kechi Okwuechi, has cried out over poor rescue and emergency systems in Nigeria, which may have contributed largely in the death of all the passengers on board the flight. Okwuechi who was a student of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja but now at the University of St. Thomas, a private Catholic college in Houston, Texas, USA, spoke at the Memorial/Symposium and Presentation of for the “60 Angels Memorial Staff Residence” in Abuja at the weekend to honour the 60 students of the school who died in the crash and said if the airports have good rescue and emergency systems, many of the victims of the crash might not have died. She also lamented that since the crash in 2005 there have been other preventable crashes due to lack of air worthiness of the aircraft and poor decisions by the pilots, noting that many preventable air crashes have happened and killed many innocent Nigerians, including children.
Source: Thisday Live
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