23 October 2005 (Sunday)
- A Nigerian airliner Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a Boeing 737 aircraft, with 117 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from Lagos en route to the capital Abuja. No survivors were found. (Reuters) (The Star)
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