[3] Originally it offered domestic services to Calabar, Port Harcourt, Lagos, Abuja and Kaduna and regional services to Monrovia in Liberia, Freetown in Sierra Leone, Conakry in Guinea, Banjul in Gambia and Accra in Ghana.
[citation needed] In 2000 it was decided to temporarily suspend ADC Airlines operations in order to re-capitalise the company.
[5] [6] [7] [8] On 29 July 1997 a BAC One-Eleven 203AE landing at Calabar overshot the runway and an engine caught fire.
One hundred and four people were on board the Boeing 737-200, which was traveling to Sokoto, and hospitals report seven survivors were found – six in a stable condition.
The spiritual head of Nigerian Muslims, Sultan Maccido of Sokoto, died in the crash.