Passenger plane crashes into building in Lagos A neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria, where the city's airport carried 2.3m passengers in 2009. Photograph: George Esiri/Reuters A passenger plane crashed into a two-storey building in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, on Sunday, officials said. Casualty figures were not yet known, said Lagos state emergency manager Femi Oke-Osanyinpolu. An emergency services official said the plane had 147 passengers on board. The Dana Air flight was taking passengers from Lagos to Abuja, said Harold Denuren, head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. Federal emergency management confirmed the crash in a neighbourhood just outside the airport and said that its emergency personnel were on their way to the scene. The weather in Lagos on Sunday was clear and sunny. Lagos international airport is a major hub for West Africa and saw 2.3 million passengers pass through it in 2009, according to the most recent statistics provided by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. In August 2010, the US announced it had given Nigeria the FAA's Category 1 status, its top safety rating that allows the nation's domestic carriers to fly directly to the US. The Nigerian government said it now had full radar coverage of the entire country. However, the state-run electricity company is in tatters and state power and diesel generators sometimes both fail at airports, making radar screens go blank.