PLANE CRASH: Another Survivor Of The Associated Airline Is Dead

One of the five survivors, an Aircraft technician of the Associated Airline that crashed on October 3 is dead.

Mr Samson Fatoye died at the Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, where he had been receiving treatment.

This is bringing a total of 16 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.

Fatoye was said to have 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.

It was learnt that the remaining four survivors, including the two cabin crew members, were captured, using the machine.

However the remaining survivors, it was learnt, might be flown to overseas any time soon.

There were allegations that the survivors had been neglected by both the government and the management of the airline.