LAGOS, May 26 (AFP) - A private airline has filed plans to sue Nigerian airport and government officials for errors leading to a 1996 plane crash which killed 144 people, reports said Wednesday. Captain Mfon Udom, managing director of the Aviation Development Company (ADC), told journalists the official report of an investigating panel had found that a mistake by a government air traffic controller was responsible for the crash. The ADC Boeing 727 aircraft crashed into a lagoon near the economic capital, Lagos, in November 1996, in Nigeria's worst ever such accident. "According to the report, the accident was caused by an air traffic control error that created a mid-air collision situation," Udom said. "ADC has been vindicated," he said cited in Wednesday's Nigerian press. Sources told the the Guardian newspaper the airline had filed intent to sue Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, the minister of aviation, the federal attorney general and the air traffic controller in charge on the day of the accident. Udom put the airline's financial loss from the disaster at 100 million dollars.  