Associated Airlines’ aircraft technician
who was among the five survivors of the October 3 crash that left 15
people dead in Lagos has passed on. He died at the Gbagada General
Hospital, Lagos, where he had been receiving treatment.
The development brought to 16 the number
of dead victims of the ill-fated plane which crashed while conveying
the remains of former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu, from Lagos
to Akure.
Sources at the hospital said the
technician, Mr. Samson Fatoye, died at about 7pm on Wednesday. Fatoye,
who suffered severe burns from the crash, had been treated in many
hospitals before he was finally taken to the Gbagada hospital.
The sources said Fatoye died few hours
after immigration officials from Abuja arrived in the hospital with
electronic data capturing machine to prepare passport for the survivors
to travel overseas for further treatment.
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