http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/03/passenger-plane-crashes-in-nigeria-largest-city/
A commercial airliner crashed into a three-story apartment building in Nigeria this week. Claiming to the tower to have engine troubles about five minutes before landing, the plane crashed and killed all 153 passengers and completely destroyed the apartment building. The police couldn't stop the thousands of people from getting near the crash site, and fire trucks, few as there were, weren't able to get into the area in order to the put out the fire. The fire continued to burn for over three hours after the crash. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of national mourning. This crash is the worst that Nigeria has seen thus far. It became very apparent how poor Nigeria's infrastructure is by the poor rescue efforts. The true cause of the accident still remains unknown.
I picked this article because I thought the relation to one of our countries that we studied this year was cool and also because disasters like that are horrible and I wanted to know why it happened. I thought the article was very well-written. It was very informative and I learned a lot about the event. I didn't enjoy hearing about the terrible accident, so no I didn't enjoy the article very much, but I did appreciate the ties to our curriculum this year.
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