[1] On approach to Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu, the Fokker F28 Fellowship 2000 crashed into a cassava field 3.3 km from the runway.

[2] 53 of the 72 people on board the plane were killed, making the crash the fourth-deadliest aviation accident in Nigeria at the time.

The minimum descent altitude of 300 ft was maintained above the local terrain, however, for unknown reasons, the plane began to descend about 3 km from the runway's threshold.

[3] The landing gear was torn off the aircraft and the plane slid on its belly for a few hundred feet.

[4] The probable cause was "the decision of the flight crew to continue the approach in below-minima weather conditions until the aircraft impacted the ground.