Status:
Date:	20 NOV 1969
Type:	Vickers VC-10-1101
Operator:	Nigeria Airways
Registration:	5N-ABD
C/n / msn:	804
First flight:	1962
Engines:	4 Rolls Royce 540 Conway
Crew:	Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11
Passengers:	Fatalities: 76 / Occupants: 76
Total:	Fatalities: 87 / Occupants: 87
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	13 km (8.1 mls) N of Lagos/Ikeja International Airport (LOS) (Nigeria)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Kano-Aminu Kano International Airport (KAN/DNKN), Nigeria
Destination airport:	Lagos/Ikeja International Airport (LOS/DNMM), Nigeria
Flightnumber:	825

Narrative:
The Nigeria Airways VC-10 was on a flight from London to Lagos with en route stops at Rome and Kano. On the last leg of the flight, the VC-10 was making a straight in runway 19 approach to Lagos when it descended below the normal approach path and struck trees. The aircraft crashed and caught fire.

PROBABLE CAUSE: Not established with certainty, but most probably due to the Commander being unaware of the aircrafts actual altitude during the final approach and allowing the aircraft to come below safe height when he was not in visual contact with the ground.

Events:

Sources:
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com