Dana coroner: Plane examined for 12 mins before flight – Witness

By SOLA OGUNDIPE, ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH, CHIOMA OBINNA, ONOZURE DANIA & MICHAEL OLADEPO LAGOS—A maintenance officer with Dana Airline, Lawrence Edekome, yesterday, told a Lagos coroner that he carried out a 12 minutescheck on  the ill-fated Dana aircraft before it took off from Abuja to Lagos on the aborted trip. dekome, who came to shed light on the maintenance schedule of the crashed aircraft before Coroner Oyetade Komolafe, especially on its trip from Abuja to Lagos, said it underwent a check before its final departure to Lagos, where the engines were certified okay to embark on the journey