This is sad news. May his soul rest in peace.

 The Daily Observer <http://www.observer.gm/enews/> (Banjul)
Gambia: Ex-GPA MD Dies in Lagos Plane Crash By Hatab Fadera, 5 June 2012

An ex-managing director of the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) was among the
153 passengers that died in Sunday's plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria.

Family sources confirmed to Daily Observer Monday afternoon that Ibrahima
D.K Janganna, best known as Baye Ebou, who by the time of his death was
serving in the international arena as a ports or maritime specialist, was
on his way from Abuja to Liberia when the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 ploughed
into a printing works and residential buildings in Lagos before bursting
into flames. The airliner, operated by Lagos-based Company Dana Air, had
flown in from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, when it crashed and burst into
flames.

Meanwhile, the Daily Observer visited the bereaved family Monday afternoon
and met scores of sympathisers converged on the compound of the late
Janganna to express their heartfelt condolences to the said family in this
trying moment. "My late brother was a friend, brother and a father to
everyone regardless of age," Muhammeh Janganna, a brother to the deceased
said in a somber-looking mood. Meanwhile, Fatoumata Janganna, daughter of
the deceased who was speaking with a heavy heart described his father's
demise as "unexpected". "He was an amazing person and a great role model,"
she added.

*About the deceased*

The late Ibrahima D.K Janganna, born May 29, 1953 in Brikama, West Coast
Region, was a professional maritime expert who joined the Gambia Ports
Authority sometime in the 1970s and rose through the ranks to the position
of a managing director before leaving in 2002. He left for Lome, Togo the
same year to set up an Eco-Marine International Shipping Company together
with other partners where he served as its director general. In 2008,
Janganna moved to CPCS, a Canadian firm running projects in Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Nigeria. Until his untimely death in Sunday's plane crash, the
late Janganna was working with this company that commenced work on a
project to reform the Liberian port sector. The company is an international
infrastructure development firm specialising in private sector
participation in transport, power, and urban sectors. An Ottawa,
Ontario-based company, CPCS operates in more than 80 countries worldwide,
particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia.

Baye Ebou as commonly called got his Masters in Maritime from the World
Maritime University in Malmo, Sweden, and he was an executive member of the
Sumpookhaati Sarahulleh Society. He was also a member of the mosque
committee in Kotu, where he resides. He is survived by a wife and six
children.

*Similar incident*

It would be recalled that two Gambians also died in a plane crash in the
Federal Republic of Nigeria about seven years ago. The late Sheriff Conteh
and Ebrima Njie, who boarded the domestic flight, were both staff of Trust
Bank Limited.

*The plane crash*

Meanwhile, reports monitored by the Daily Observer indicated that the
pilots reported engine trouble before the Dana Air jetliner crashed into
businesses and crowded apartment buildings near Lagos' Murtala Muhammed
International Airport, the worst air disaster in Nigeria in nearly two
decades. Two years ago, the same Boeing MD-83 had loss of engine power due
to a bird strike, according to an aviation database. The cause of the crash
remains unclear.

The director-general of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Harold
Demuren, said the Nigerian registration number of the plane was 5NRAM.
Aviation databases show the plane was exported to Nigeria in early 2009. It
was first delivered in 1990 with the U.S. registration number N944AS to
Alaska Airlines and it suffered two minor incidents while in the
Seattle-based airline's service, according to databases of the Federal
Aviation Administration and the Aviation Safety Network. On Nov. 2, 2002,
the plane made an emergency diversion due to smoke and electrical smell in
the cabin, and on Aug. 20, 2006, the plane was evacuated after landing at
Long Beach, California because of smoke in the passenger cabin.

On April 19, 2010, the plane made an emergency landing at Lagos due to loss
of engine power after a bird strike following takeoff, according to the
Aviation Safety Network. The aircraft appeared to have come down Sunday on
its belly onto the dense neighbourhood that sits along the typical approach
path taken by aircraft heading into Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International
Airport. The plane tore through roofs, sheared a mango tree and rammed into
a woodworking studio, a printing press and at least two apartment buildings
before stopping. The plane was heading to Lagos from Abuja, the capital,
when it went down.


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