Case file · Sighting
The 'low-flying aircraft' at the Synagogue collapse
After a guesthouse of T. B. Joshua's Synagogue, Church of All Nations collapsed in Lagos on 12 September 2014, killing 116 people, Joshua showed footage of a plane circling the building and suggested sabotage.
2014 CE · 6.55, 3.27 · status: explained
The account
Most of the dead were South African pilgrims. The church's account presented the aircraft as the cause, and it spread widely among followers.
The sceptical view
A Lagos coroner's inquest in 2015 found that the building had extra floors added without approval and weak structural work, and that the church was criminally negligent. No mechanism linked an overflight to the collapse.