Thirteen bodies have been recovered so far from the charter plane which crashed shortly after takeoff in Lagos on Thursday, and several injured in the plane carrying 20 people.
The charter flight took off at about 09:30 local time from the domestic terminal at Lagos' Murtala Mohammed International Airport.
The plane was stated to have crashed-landed shortly after it suffered an engine failure near an airport fuel depot and killing at least 13 people, officials stated.
"It was going to Akure (in the southwest). The engine failed on takeoff and it crash-landed and burst into flames," stated Supo Atobatele, spokesman for the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency.
The Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Associated Airlines, Taiwo Raji, confirmed in a briefing last night that the ill-fated flight Number 631, which crashed at the Lagos airport, actually had 20 passengers on board, of which seven survived while 13 were confirmed dead.
He stated that the last time the aircraft operated before yesterday's flight was August 30, 2013 and that the aircraft was insured locally by Sema Insurance, adding the last time it was taken for maintece checks was on June 20, 2013.
The aircraft, which was manufactured in 1990, was 23 years old and was one of the 10 aircraft in its fleet, six of which were serviceable.
Another NEMA spokesman, Manzo Ezekiel, told AFP that the plane crashed in an area within the airport complex where fuel is stored.
The area lies between the international and domestic terminal, he added, but it was yet unclear if the fuel had caught fire.
Officials stated the plane crashed onto an open land within the airport complex, close to a fuel storage depot.
It is not yet clear whether the fuel caught fire.