Qualla: EAS Airlines Flight 4226 https://qualla.com/eas-airlines-flight-4226 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eas-airlines-flight-4226-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: EAS Airlines Flight 4226 https://qualla.com/eas-airlines-flight-4226 EAS Airlines Flight 4226: Introduction https://qualla.com/eas-airlines-flight-4226/ Photo credit Javy010, CC BY-SA 4.0. "Ready for space travel," Captain Peter Inneh joked over the radio as his aircraft lined up on Runway 23 at Kano's Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport. It was May 4, 2002, early afternoon, and Flight 4226 was bound for Lagos with 69 passengers and 8 crew aboard a BAC One-Eleven. Neither Inneh nor his first officer, Chris Adegboye, had ever flown out of Kano before. The runway they were using -- the shorter of the airport's two -- was standing in while the longer one underwent renovation. Within minutes of beginning their takeoff roll, the aircraft would overrun the pavement, strike a transformer pit, and crash into Gwammaja Quarters, a densely populated neighborhood three kilometers from the airport. One hundred and three people died, making it the deadliest accident in the BAC One-Eleven's history.

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eas-airlines-flight-4226-wp/s14k-eas-airlines-flight-4226-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full EAS Airlines Flight 4226: An Aircraft with Many Lives https://qualla.com/eas-airlines-flight-4226/ Photo credit Javy010, CC BY-SA 4.0. The BAC One-Eleven that became 5N-ESF had already lived several lives before it reached Nigeria. Manufactured in 1980, it was first delivered to Romania's TAROM, then leased to Inex-Adria Aviopromet and later to Ryanair before returning to TAROM in 1989. EAS Airlines acquired it ...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eas-airlines-flight-4226-wp/s14k-eas-airlines-flight-4226-an-aircraft-with-many-lives.mp3 0:06 2 full EAS Airlines Flight 4226: The Wrong Runway, the Wrong Habits https://qualla.com/eas-airlines-flight-4226/ Photo credit Javy010, CC BY-SA 4.0. Kano airport had two runways: 06/24, the longer one, and 05/23, shorter but still adequate for a BAC One-Eleven departure. With the primary runway closed for renovation, all traffic used the secondary strip. Investigators later concluded that neither pilot had accounted for the d...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eas-airlines-flight-4226-wp/s14k-eas-airlines-flight-4226-the-wrong-runway-the-wrong-habits.mp3 0:06 3 full EAS Airlines Flight 4226: Dust, Impact, and Descent https://qualla.com/eas-airlines-flight-4226/ Photo credit Javy010, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before the aircraft could gain altitude, its landing gear smashed into a ground depression used as a transformer pit for the approach lighting system. The impact, estimated at three to four G-forces, degraded the aircraft's ability to accelerate. Worse, the collision threw massiv...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eas-airlines-flight-4226-wp/s14k-eas-airlines-flight-4226-dust-impact-and-descent.mp3 0:06 4 full EAS Airlines Flight 4226: A Neighborhood in Ashes https://qualla.com/eas-airlines-flight-4226/ Photo credit Javy010, CC BY-SA 4.0. At least 100 students were in the school complex when the aircraft hit. Firefighters arrived within ten minutes but were overwhelmed -- crowds of onlookers blocked access, water sources at the crash site were nonexistent, and hostile reactions from grief-stricken residents made o...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/1/4/k/eas-airlines-flight-4226-wp/s14k-eas-airlines-flight-4226-a-neighborhood-in-ashes.mp3 0:06 5 full EAS Airlines Flight 4226: The Reckoning That Followed https://qualla.com/eas-airlines-flight-4226/ Photo credit Javy010, CC BY-SA 4.0. Aviation Minister Kema Chikwe grounded every BAC One-Eleven in the country and announced that Nigeria would no longer register aircraft older than twenty-two years. The investigation, hampered by the useless flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder that had gone missing ...

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