The Associated Airlines charter flight took off at roughly 9:30 am (0830 GMT) from the domestic terminal at Lagos’ Murtala Mohammed International Airport.
“It was going to Akure (in the southwest). The engine failed on takeoff and it crash-landed and burst into flames,” said Supo Atobatele, spokesman for the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency.
Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told AFP that “eight bodies” had been recovered so far, with another person being treated for serious injuries.
“The rescue operation is still on,” he said, with NEMA staff searching the wreckage of the charter flight for potential survivors.
Twenty passengers were on board the plane, which was conveying the body of the former governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, who died in Lagos on Friday last week, to Akure, the state capital.
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