More than 150 killed in Nigeria plane crash Nigeria plane crash: people gather at the crash site in Lagos after a flight from Abuja came down in a densely populated neighbourhood. Photograph: Sunday Alamba/AP A plane carrying about 150 people has crashed in a densely populated neighbourhood of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, killing everyone on board. Thousands of people crowded around a smouldering two-story tin-roofed building into which the Dana Air flight from Abuja to Lagos had plunged. Nigeria's emergency services said there were likely more casualties on the ground. Police used truncheons to beat back the massed onlookers, trying to make a path for rescue services, but the crowd was so large that ambulances, sirens wailing, were unable to get through. This crowd is crazy. The rescuers can't even get access," said a local motorbike taxi driver, who said he had felt a huge thud as the aircraft struck. The plane burst into flames after hitting the building in the Agege suburb of the city, not far from Lagos's Murtala Muhammed airport, witnesses said. "We heard a huge explosion, and at first we thought it was a gas canister," said Timothy Akinyela, 50, a local newspaper reporter who was watching a football match with friends in a bar near the crash site. Then there were some more explosions afterwards and everyone ran out. It was terrifying. There was confusion and shouting," he added. Smoke billowed from the windows and roof of the building that was hit. Locals climbed on top of walls to try to look in. Bits of the plane were scattered on the muddy ground. Lagos's international airport is a hub for west Africa, and 2.3 million passengers passed through it in 2009. The government says it has full radar coverage of Nigeria, but power cuts are common and generators sometimes fail at airports, causing radar screens to go blank.