This research evaluates air transportation safety in Nigeria. Records of aircraft crashes in Nigeria were
extracted from different archives to create a database of air traffic incidences within the air space of
Nigeria since Independence. Statistical overview of air transportation accidents in Nigeria using accident
data to examine a national trend in air transportation disasters was carried out. Results of the analysis
showed that air traffic accidents in Nigeria have increased per decade with 2 incidences between 1960 and
1969, 27 incidences between 2000 and 2009 with an increasing trend in the preceding decades. Impacts of
season on aircraft accident in Nigeria were less significant. Airplanes constitute larger proportion of
aircraft involved in accident with 86% incidences, and 14% for helicopter. Passenger plane constitute the
largest proportion with 46 incidences occurring in the commercial plane category while 8 and 2 crashes
occur in Military and Cargo operation. Majority of the accidents in Nigeria occurred in Lagos with 14
crashes involving plane majorly, followed by Abuja (FCT) and, Kano and Rivers with 4 each. Year 2005
however has the highest number of plane incidences in Nigeria with 11 crashe