SITREP #2: LAGOS BELLVIEW FLIGHT 3210 CRASH; TIME:

C O N F I D E N T I A L LAGOS 001644

SIPDIS

TRANSPORTATION FOR FAA; DAKAR PLEASE PASS TO FAA REP ED
JONES; ROME PLEASE PASS TO TSA REP JOHN HALINSKI

E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/22/2006
TAGS: CASC EAIR NI ASEC PREL
SUBJECT: SITREP #2: LAGOS BELLVIEW FLIGHT 3210 CRASH; TIME:
6:00 AM (LOCAL)

REF: LAGOS 1643

Classified By: Consul General Brian L. Browne per 1.4 d


1. (SBU) Bellview airline officials have still not/not yet
made available the flight manifest list, claiming they will
make it available once they finish checking it against
passenger ticket coupons the airline retains when passengers
board the aircraft.


2. (C) In the interim, the Managing Director of Bellview
airlines told us he had conducted a preliminary check of the
manifest and he who provided the names of three people who
may have been aboard that he felt might possibly be
Americans. The name of the known USG employee was among the
three. Consular records showed no registration matches for
the other two names. Note these names were provided because
they were "Anglo-sounding." We will not know whether other
Amcits were on board until manifest list is made available.
As a professional courtesy, we passed the two names to the
British Consulate General.


3. (SBU) Working-level Nigerian law enforcement contacts have
informally requested USG forensic and other technical
assistance. We advised that a formal request would be needed
from the Federal Government before the request could be
considered. Post recommends that Washington consider
providing forensic/security assistance from the FAA/NTSB and
FBI.


4. (C) Security contacts are reporting no/no evidence of
foul-play at this time.


5. (U) The EAC will reconvene at 0900 local, Sunday October

23.
BROWNE