<P> The McDonnell Douglas DC - 9 was manufactured in 1973 . It entered the Nigerian registration on 12 June 2003 . It was owned by JAT Airways, and operated by Sosoliso Airlines Ltd . The aircraft certificate was released on 17 March 2005 and would have been due to another check on 27 June 2006 . The aircraft was described as airworthy at the time of the accident . </P> <P> The captain was Benjamin Adekunle Adebayo, a 48 year old Nigerian with a total flying experience of 10,050 hours with 1,900 of them on the DC - 9 . He had his last simulator training at Pan Am International Flight Academy in Miami on 7 July 2005 . The first officer was Gerad Yakubu Andan, a 33 year old Ghanaian with a total flying experience of 920 hours which 670 hours were on the type . He had his last simulator training on August 2005 with a result of' satisfying' . </P> <P> All seven crew members and 101 of the 103 passengers died in the crash, or later from their injuries . The two surviving passengers Kechi Okwuchi and Bunmi Amusan were seriously injured . Many passengers survived the initial impact and died in the resulting fire . Port Harcourt Airport had one fire truck and no ambulances . </P> <P> Among the passengers were about sixty - one secondary school students from Loyola Jesuit College in the Federal Capital Territory region of Nigeria . At first Loyola Jesuit College students from Port Harcourt traveled between school and their homes via buses using the roads . Rising crime along roads during the 1990s made parents believe that road travel was too dangerous . In 2001, when Sosoliso Airlines began services between Port Harcourt and Abuja parents placed their children on the flights . </P>

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