ADC Airlines is an airline based in Nigeria. It started flight operations in 1991 as a non-scheduled airline and in 1992 became a scheduled airline. 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.

The 1990s saw a number of accidents with ADC Airlines planes. In August 1994 and July 1995 two DC-9-31s were written off in non-fatal accidents, both at Monrovia-Spriggs Payne Airport . On 7 November 1996 a Boeing 727-231 en route from Port Harcourt to Lagos went out of control and crashed after a near miss incident killing all 143 on board. On 29 July 1997 a BAC One-Eleven 203AE landing at Calabar overshot the runway and an engine caught fire. There was one fatality.

In 2000 it was decided to temporarily suspend ADC Airlines operations in order to re-capitalise the company. In February 2002 a Boeing 737-200 was acquired and operations restarted to Calabar. Since then three further Boeing 737s have joined the fleet.

Services

ADC airlines operates over 120 flights a week on the following services (at February 2005):

• Abuja to Lagos, Sokoto and Yola
• Calabar to Lagos and Port Harcourt
• Kano to Sokoto
• Lagos to Abuja, Calabar, Port Harcourt, Sokoto and Yola
• Port Harcourt to Calabar and Lagos
• Sokoto to Abuja, Kano and Lagos
• Yola to Abuja and Lagos

Fleet

A variety of airline types have been operated in the past including: 1 Boeing 707-338C, 2 BAC One-Elevens, 3 Boeing 727s, 3 McDonnell Douglas DC-9s, 1 Lockheed Tristar and 1 ATR 42.

ADC Airlines currently has 4 Boeing 737-200 aircraft in their fleet.

External Links

• ADC Airlines
• Aviation Safety Reports