It was announced from Washington on 6th June that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is dispatching an investigator to assist the Government of
Nigeria in its investigation into the crash of a Dana Air Boeing MD-83 airplane,
Flight #0992.

On 3rd June at about 1151 local time, the airplane, en route from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria, crashed outside the airport into a two storey building. All 153 passengers and crew onboard were fatally injured, and an undetermined number of ground fatalities and injuries also occurred.