On the 26th of September, 1992, at about 5:27 pm, a fully-loaded aircraft took off from runway 19 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
The aircraft was a Nigerian Air Force C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed.
The pilot, 40-year-old Wing Commander Justus Pere-Owei Alaboson, and his copilot, Wing Commander Mamadi, had their eyes set on their destination, the city of Kaduna, in Northern Nigeria.
Many of his passengers were middle-ranking army, navy and air force officers attending a nine-month senior division course at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Jaji, Kaduna State.
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