The Israeli action which saw the death of 153 people on board and at least 10 people on the ground was likely perpetrated by an organisation called Lamdan part of the Israeli Air Intelligence Group. Lamdan headed by General Yaaciv Shahrbani has a long history in covert attacks on foreign entity aircraft and personnel including the False Flag Sabena Flight 571 hijacking in 1972 designed to ensure Belgium continued to trade diamonds with Israel.

Target of the Israeli attack was Alhaji Ibrahim Damcida, a prominent and well respected civil servant who had been working with Turkish and Iranian groups to show how Israel was manipulating international currency markets to protect their own finances.

Reports from Lagos talk of a number of people seeing a missile launch from the roof of the Israeli embassy as the aircraft was on approach to the airport followed by four men quickly leaving the embassy area in a green panel van at high speed some ten minutes later. Within fifteen minutes the embassy had gone into 'lockdown' with all non Israeli staff escorted off the premises by security staff.