?A?? father?? who?? lost?? two?? full? grown? up? children? in? the? DANA? air? crash, by? name?? Mr.? Solomon? Onita? told? LEADERSHIP? that ,?? this??? is??? the? most? traumatic? experience? in? his? life.
“How? can? this? happen? to? me? ,? that? a? Pastor? serving? God?? would?? suffer? this? kind?? of? fate, losing? 2? full? grown? daughters?? in? one? day? just? like? that,? I? feel? exactly? how? Job? in? the? Bible? felt,”? he? lamented.
Onita? who? disclosed? that? he?? reliably? learnt? that?? 8???? US- based? citizens? died? in? that? ill? fated? air? crash? pointed? out?? that? he?? flew in? from? USA? on? Monday? to? see? the? remains?? of? his?? daughters? whom? he? called “Angels”.
According??? to?? Pastor? Onita,?? who?? spoke?? with?? LEADERSHIP?? at? the? Lagos? University? Teaching? Hospital (LASUTH)?? where?? he? had gone? to? identify? the? corpses?? of??? his?? daughters,??? Josephine Onita??? and??? Jennifer Onita? of? Missouri City,?? Texas??? who?? were?? killed in the crash?? as? they?? came?? to? attend?? a wedding in Lagos, said the daughters were?? very? closely? soul- tie? sisters,? who were wonderful? daughters of Pastor Solomon and Lola Onita, pastors at a Missouri City congregation of the Nigerian-based Redeemed Christian Church of God.
“Josephine always made people laugh and?? Jennifer is? ever? so?? sweet . They?? were? angels” the? father? lamented.
The failed plane pilot, LEADERSHIP gathered was a U.S. citizen. Also on board the plane were seven other U.S. citizens (the? late? Onita’s? daughters? included).
The? father? disclosed? that? Jennifer Onita, 28, was a Bio-Medical Engineering student at the University of Houston Graduate School. “Jennifer was an accomplished Engineer with concentrations in both Aeronautics and Defense.”
“And?? my?? other?? daughter,? Josephine, 23, was an?? accomplished? accountancy manager for the family business”.
Pastor? Onita?? lamented?? that? he?? learnt?? the American pilot? of?? the? ill? fated? plane? sent a radio message that the plane was having trouble minutes before it crash landed? and? he? had? declared an? emergency as the plane approached the Murtala Muhammed International Airport,? “? so? why? was?? this? crash?? not? averted?”? he? asked?? no? one? in? particular?
Dana Air’s director of operations, Oscar Wason, identified the American pilot as?? Mr Peter Waxtan?? and?? that?? he was a veteran of the Miramar-based Spirit Airlines from 1997 to 2009.
Meanwhile,? a??? condolence website has been opened for?? the?? entire?? family of ten that was wiped out in the crash.
Titled: “Memories of Maimuna and Onyeka Anyene”, the web page contains pictures and loving memories of the family and is tagged as: Maimuna and Onyeka Forever; Maimuna’s Memory; Their Lives In Pictures; Condolences; Burial Arrangements; Fondest Memories;?? and News.
The web disclosed through a relative?? that? ,? “They (the couple) fought for their courtship, fought for their marriage and the love they conjured up from their dogged togetherness created such beauty, such peace and such joy around them. Their love blessed them abundantly and they blessed so many? others? with love why? did? they? have? to? die?? like?? this?”
