At about 14:08 local time (13:08 UTC) on 10 December 2005, Flight 1145 from Abuja crash-landed at Port Harcourt International Airport.

[2] It was the second air disaster to occur in Nigeria in less than three months, after Bellview Airlines Flight 210, which crashed on 22 October 2005 for reasons unknown, killing all 117 people on board.

The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was manufactured in 1972, with 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A engines, and the serial number 47562/685.

[8] Among the passengers were about sixty secondary school students from Loyola Jesuit College in the Federal Capital Territory region of Nigeria.

[7] At first, Loyola Jesuit College students from Port Harcourt traveled between school and their homes via buses using the roads.

In 2001, when Sosoliso Airlines began services between Port Harcourt and Abuja, parents placed their children on the flights.

[9] Also on the flight were two volunteers for Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, one of whom was an American and the other was a French citizen, en route to work in Port Harcourt,[10][11][12] as well as televangelist Bimbo Odukoya, pastor of the Fountain of Life Church.

[13][14][15][12] The National President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), Uche Marcus Okoro who was returning from a union meeting, was also on the passenger list.

The data suggested that at 13:00 p.m, a sea breeze front, possibly reinforced by an outflow, pushed inland in the vicinity of Port Harcourt.

[7] Further investigation revealed that Sosoliso Airlines didn't include wind shear recognition and recovery into its simulator training program.

A few seconds later, there was an increase of speed to 151 knots, indicating that the flight crews had decided to initiate a go-around.

[7] The cockpit voice recorder revealed that Captain Adebayo had called for a go-around approximately 16 seconds before the crash.

Flight 1145 was flying slightly above its stall speed and the windshear condition caused the airspeed to decrease.

In the case of Flight 1145, the DC-9 exploded immediately after it had struck a drainage culvert located about 70 meters to the left of Runway 21.

[7] Investigators also noted that the runway was only lit at certain conditions i.e at night, on request by pilots or during bad weather in the area.

This was due to the unstable power supply from the Nigerian National Grid and the lack of resources and funds to maintain the lighting in the airport.

[7] The Nigerian AIB recommended that wind shear recognition and recovery should be made compulsory into pilot's initial and recurrent simulator training.

This was not applied in a timely manner and resulted in another airliner crash a year later in Abuja which was caused by wind shear.

[7] The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) mandates that each family of an air crash victim is entitled to only 3 million naira or US$18,157 from the airline.

[29] Pope Benedict XVI sent condolences to the families of victims and offered prayers for relief workers at the site of the accident.

[34][33] A Concerned Students Club was also created after the crash to discuss and reflect on the issues within Nigeria, and the school founded the Jesuit Memorial College in 2013 and Loyola Academy in 2014 which focus on providing education to lower income families.