THE memory of the 60 students of Loyola Jesuit
College, Abuja, who died in the Sosoliso plane crash in 2005 came alive
as the parents, teachers and students held a solemn candle light
procession on Wednesday night in remembrance of the “Angels.”
December 10 made it eight years that 60 students of Loyola Jesuit College and 47 others perished in the 2005 Sosoliso Airline crash. Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 was a scheduled flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt carrying 103 passengers and seven crew members.
The plane crash landed and burst into flames at the Port Harcourt International Airport, killing 108 people, with two survivors, one LJC student and another passenger.
Chairperson of the LJC Parents Teachers’ Association (PTA), Abuja branch, Mrs Ochuko Momoh, who spoke with newsmen shortly before the candle light procession, said eight years might have passed and the scars gradually healing “but we will never forget our children who left us in the most heart-breaking manner.”
She noted that the parents had remained deeply pained by the unfortunate incident, adding that the grief was more for Loyola Jesuit College, “having 60 promising lives, 10 per cent of its entire student population, cut short in one swoop, was too much for any school to bear.”
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December 10 made it eight years that 60 students of Loyola Jesuit College and 47 others perished in the 2005 Sosoliso Airline crash. Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 was a scheduled flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt carrying 103 passengers and seven crew members.
The plane crash landed and burst into flames at the Port Harcourt International Airport, killing 108 people, with two survivors, one LJC student and another passenger.
Chairperson of the LJC Parents Teachers’ Association (PTA), Abuja branch, Mrs Ochuko Momoh, who spoke with newsmen shortly before the candle light procession, said eight years might have passed and the scars gradually healing “but we will never forget our children who left us in the most heart-breaking manner.”
She noted that the parents had remained deeply pained by the unfortunate incident, adding that the grief was more for Loyola Jesuit College, “having 60 promising lives, 10 per cent of its entire student population, cut short in one swoop, was too much for any school to bear.”
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