{"id":2091,"date":"2006-10-31T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2007-02-15T10:38:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:38:41","slug":"nigerians-continue-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nigerians-continue-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians continue to fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6100058.stm\">BBC<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nigerians fly despite the risks<br \/>\nNigeria&#8217;s government plans to consolidate the airline industry<br \/>\nYears of neglect and lack of investment in basic infrastructure and weak regulatory control mean flying in Nigeria has long been risky.<br \/>\nSunday&#8217;s crash of an ADC Boeing 737 into a cornfield just 2km (1.2 miles) from Abuja&#8217;s main airport was the third major airline disaster in a year.<br \/>\nThe spiritual leader of Nigeria&#8217;s 70 million Muslims, the sultan of Sokoto, two senators and the son of a former president were among the 96 who died.<br \/>\nNigerians are grieving but angry too.<br \/>\nJust over a year ago, a passenger jet operated by Bellview went down near Lagos, killing 117 people.<br \/>\nSeven weeks later, a plane operated by the Nigerian airline Sosoliso crashed on landing in the southern city of Port Harcourt, killing 106 people, half of whom were children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Nigerians fly despite the risks Nigeria&#8217;s government plans to consolidate the airline industry Years of neglect and lack of investment in basic infrastructure and weak regulatory control mean flying in Nigeria has long been risky. Sunday&#8217;s crash of an ADC Boeing 737 into a cornfield just 2km (1.2 miles) from Abuja&#8217;s main &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/nigerians-continue-to-fly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigerians continue to fly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-xJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}