People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Rescue workers search for survivals after a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Onlookers stand on the tail wing of a crashed passenger plane in a neighborhood just north of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. The Lagos state government said in a statement that 153 people were on the Dana Air flight Sunday. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
Rescue workers work at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
A man looks at the wreckage of a passenger plane in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. All 153 passengers on board the plane are dead, an aviation official says. The plane crashed in a densely populated neighborhood near the airport. A spokesman for Nigeria’s national emergency management agency said there were likely more casualties on the ground, but the number was unknown. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
Onlookers react near the wreckage of a passenger plane in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. All 153 passengers on board the plane are dead, an aviation official says. The plane crashed in a densely populated neighborhood near the airport. A spokesman for Nigeria’s national emergency management agency said there were likely more casualties on the ground, but the number was unknown. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. The passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
People gather at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, June 3, 2012. A passenger plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, government officials said. Firefighters pulled at least one body from a building that was damaged by the crash and searched for survivors as several charred corpses could be seen in the rubble.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s president has declared three days of national mourning after a commercial airliner crashed Sunday in the country’s largest city.
The domestic airliner was flying from the capital, Abuja when it went down in a densely populated neighborhood of Lagos, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground. The plane tore through roofs, sheared a mango tree and slammed into a woodworking studio, a printing press and at least two large apartment buildings in the neighborhood before stopping.
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Nigerian plane crashes, killing all 153 onboard
Firefighters and police struggled to put out the flames around the wreckage as thousands of people flocked to the crash site. Rescue officials have not been able to determine how many people on the ground may have been killed.
The cause of the crash has not been determined, but a military official says the plane’s pilots radioed the Lagos tower just before the crash, saying the plane had engine trouble.
