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Nigeria's civil aviation authority has grounded all Dana Air's aeroplanes after one of its aircraft crashed on Sunday in a busy Lagos suburb. The commercial aircraft was flying from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to Lagos when it crashed and burst into flames. All 153 people on board, and an unknown number on the ground, were killed. Meanwhile, the country's lawmakers have called for the head of the civil aviation authority to step aside while they carry out an investigation. Dana Air usually operates to cities around Nigeria out of Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. Dozens of families have been trying to identify the bodies of the dead, which are being kept in a morgue in a Lagos hospital. It had been feared that dozens of people on the ground were also killed when the McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashed into a printing works and residential buildings in Iju, a busy suburb north of the airport. The BBC's Will Ross in Lagos says although some could still be buried under the rubble, so far the emergency teams have found six additional bodies - a remarkably low number given that it is a densely populated city.