The deadliest crash of this year was the Kano air disaster in which an Alia Boeing 707 chartered by Nigeria Airways crashed while attempting to land in Kano, Nigeria, on 22 January; 176 of the 202 people on board were killed.
This paper offers an explanation for the character Dru gu Gesar (=Turk Caesar), attested in the Tibetan Epic of Gesar of gLing, suggesting that it was the Khazars and their close relationship with Byzantium that helped in the dissemination…