Priscillia Aligba
Age: 24
Summary: Nigerian
medical doctor and youth corp member serving with the police in
Nigeria's Rivers State on the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who
had been reportedly hospitalized in critical
condition at an intensive care unit for less than a week from severe
third-degree burns suffered up to 60 percent of her body she received
in a
horrific December 10 Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 airplane accident
that killed 103 of the 110 passengers and crew members aboard when the
ill-fated commercial jet had crash-landed on a runway tarmac and burst
into flames at the Port Harcourt International Airport in the southern
oil city of Port Harcourt, Nigeria during a thunderstorm, but the cause
of the crash remains unclear and it became the second major air
disaster in two months in Africa's most-populous nation.
Cause of Death: Complications from burns resulted in a plane crash
Born: December 25, 1980
Died: December 14, 2005
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa