Dana Air Lagos Nigeria plane crash: Authorities find flight data and cockpit voice recorder

Lagos, Nigeria: Nigerian authorities found the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder from a deadly weekend plane crash, emergency officials said Tuesday.
The devices will help investigators piece together what caused the crash. Meanwhile, heavy rains have prompted a suspension of recovery efforts, officials said.
The pilot of the Dana Air plane that crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, radioed that the plane was having trouble just minutes earlier, an airline official told CNN on Monday.
The details emerged as search and rescue crews worked to recover bodies from the wreckage, while authorities searched for the flight data recorders to try to piece together what brought down the plane Sunday, killing all 153 people aboard and at least 10 on the ground.
The pilot declared an emergency as the plane was on final approach to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, and witnesses said it appeared the plane was having engine trouble, said Oscar Wason, Dana Air's director of operations.
Wason identified the pilot as an American, but did not release his name or hometown. The co-pilot was from India, and the flight engineer from Indonesia, Wason said.
U.S. citizens were on board the flight, the U.S. State Department said Monday, but the agency did not have an exact number. The consulate in Lagos was working to notify the victims' next of kin, spokesman Mark Toner said.
Also among the dead are six Chinese citizens who were on board the flight, the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria said Monday.
05/06/12 Vladimir Duthiers and Chelsea J. Carter/CNN/ABC Action News

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