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Crews ploughed through the wreckage of an airliner Monday hoping to recover the data recorders to piece together what exactly brought down a Dana Air flight in Lagos, killing all 153 people aboard and at least 10 on the ground.

The pilot of the doomed flight that crashed in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, is an American, according to Oscar Wason, the airline's director of flight operations. The co-pilot is from India, while the engineer is from Indonesia, he said. Wason did not release their identities.

The rescue effort turned to the recovery of bodies in the West African nation's most populous city after the director of Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency said early Monday there were no survivors of the crash.

The death toll was likely to increase as crews searched through the rubble of a two-story residential building struck by the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 on Sunday.

It was unclear how many people were inside the building and on the street outside at the time of the crash, Mohammad Sani Sidi, the emergency management director, told CNN from the crash site.

The Dana Air flight from the Nigerian capital of Abuja crashed at 3:43 p.m. (10:43 a.m. ET) in the Lagos neighborhood of Iju Ishaga, just north of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, according to the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.

By daybreak, crews working through the night had recovered at least 80 bodies, including 10 believed to be residents, Sidi said.

Among the dead are six Chinese citizens who were on board the flight, the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria said Monday.