US embassy cable - 05LAGOS1644

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