Profile Of The Crashed Associated Airline Plane + Agagu's Family Say They Were Warned Of An Impending Tragedy Before Agagu's Burial, Insists Burial Plans Will Continue!!

The Associated Airlines Embraer 120
plane with registration number 5N-BJY,
which crashed in Lagos on Thursday,
was manufactured in Brazil in 1990.
Although its first flight date is unknown,
the aircraft, with serial number 174,
was said to be 23.5 years old.
According to Airfleets.net, the plane had
been flown by three United States-
based airlines for 17 years before being
sent to Nigeria, namely - Britt Airlines,
Continental Express and JRM Air LLC.
Britt Airlines bought the plane on March
23, 1990, and marked it in US
registration as N51726. Continental
Express later bought it on September 1,
1990 and kept it under US registration
as N51726.
Before coming to Nigeria, the plane was
later bought by JRM Air LCC which also
marked it N 388JR.
It was flown for six years in the country
by Associated Airlines before
Thursday’s accident.
Meanwhile, members of the family of
the former Governor of Ondo State,
Olusegun Agagu, have insisted that they
will go ahead with the arrangements
for his interment despite the plane crash
on Thursday.
That while they sympathise with the
families of those  who lost their loved
ones  in the crash, they will go ahead
with the burial. The casket bearing
Agagu’s  body was not affected by the
crash.
A member of the   Agagu family, Chief
Sehindemi Oguntoye,  said the
community had a premonition  that  a
tragedy would occur  before the burial
of the former governor. So the family
held a prayer session  after it was
warned of an impending  tragedy before
the burial.
He said:
“The community had been informed of
an impending tragedy and the
community had held a vigil  to avert it.
The vigil even ended today (Thursday).
It was a big tragedy for Iju-Odo
community.
We had before the death of Dr. Agagu
lost our traditional ruler, and now a
plane crash which involves our loved
ones.’’
He, however, urged the community to
be fervent in prayers to prevent further
tragedies.
The  residents of the community were in
pensive mood, with many of them
gathering in front of their houses
discussing the incident. St. Paul’s
Anglican Church, Iju-Odo  has been
renovated for the burial service
scheduled for Friday while major roads
leading into the town had  been
rehabilitated.
The  grave  where Agagu will be  buried
in the church cemetery has also  been
decorated to give him a befitting
farewell.